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Where does the Greater Whitethroat live?

Sylvia communis has 2,378,108 records in 125 countries and territories, from 1817 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Greater Whitethroat
Greater Whitethroat — Andreas Trepte / CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesSylviidaeSylvia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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
Sweden 459,031
Netherlands 351,017
France 284,967
United Kingdom 273,375
Denmark 233,250
Belgium 115,731
Finland 112,751
Norway 101,670
Spain 97,167
Germany 78,871
Russia 33,799
Poland 27,068
Estonia 22,036
Israel 21,407
Portugal 17,393
Luxembourg 13,910
Czechia 13,647
Bulgaria 11,923
Türkiye 11,615
Åland Islands 8,420
Ukraine 7,804
Greece 7,437
Ireland 7,218
Isle of Man 5,763
Austria 4,209
Italy 3,446
United Arab Emirates 3,193
Hungary 2,512
Switzerland 2,502
Slovakia 2,430
Serbia 2,274
South Africa 2,272
Georgia 2,252
Lithuania 2,145
Kenya 1,892
Croatia 1,703
Belarus 1,702
Kuwait 1,688
Palestine 1,659
Latvia 1,637

Showing the top 40 of 125 places.

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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.