What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Lesser Whitethroat been recorded?

Sylvia curruca occurrence evidence comes from 459,233 records in 50 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Lesser Whitethroat
Lesser Whitethroat — Photo (display-sized rendition): Ekytza · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesPasseriformesSylviidaeSylvia

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

459,233 records across 50 countries and territories, 1790–2026.

Sylvia curruca · GBIF taxon key 2492960

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

6 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

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.

Records over time

17902026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Lesser Whitethroat has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Lesser Whitethroat. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 435,823
Belgium 15,289
Luxembourg 3,019
Austria 2,157
United Kingdom 1,072
Germany 901
Russia 312
Netherlands 228
Afghanistan 53
China 50
Israel 46
Jordan 32
Egypt 26
Greece 20
Pakistan 16
France 15
Finland 14
Serbia 14
India 13
Mongolia 13
Denmark 12
Estonia 11
Türkiye 11
Iran 9
Italy 9
Kazakhstan 8
Czechia 5
Ethiopia 5
Kuwait 5
Poland 5
Ukraine 5
Bulgaria 4
Spain 4
Romania 4
Switzerland 3
Lithuania 3
Armenia 2
Hungary 2
Albania 1
Belarus 1

Showing the top 40 of 50 places.

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.