🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the chamois live?

Rupicapra rupicapra has 492,718 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1805 to 2026. Most records come from Switzerland.

chamois
chamois — Giles Laurent / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataMammaliaArtiodactylaBovidaeRupicapra

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Switzerland 350,812
France 103,841
Austria 26,351
Italy 5,814
Liechtenstein 2,270
Germany 1,884
Slovenia 237
Slovakia 235
Romania 218
Croatia 171
Montenegro 142
New Zealand 133
Bulgaria 121
Poland 107
Russia 104
Greece 95
Georgia 46
Belgium 36
Spain 27
Albania 16
Czechia 16
North Macedonia 12
Türkiye 8
Bosnia & Herzegovina 7
Serbia 5
Kosovo 5
Belarus 2
Netherlands 1
Sweden 1
ZZ 1

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.