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Where does the Little Grebe live?

Tachybaptus ruficollis has 3,080,419 records in 154 countries and territories, from 1828 to 2026. Most records come from Netherlands.

Little Grebe
Little Grebe — Andreas Trepte / CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesPodicipediformesPodicipedidaeTachybaptus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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
Netherlands 355,386
United Kingdom 337,003
Spain 268,792
Sweden 244,909
India 237,028
France 217,805
Denmark 199,013
South Africa 185,082
Taiwan 151,178
Belgium 144,561
Germany 109,932
Portugal 64,621
China 60,862
Israel 46,442
Norway 43,057
Japan 40,994
Italy 37,632
Türkiye 26,227
United Arab Emirates 20,722
Switzerland 20,286
Thailand 17,756
Czechia 16,979
Ireland 16,561
Austria 15,354
South Korea 15,264
Poland 14,426
Greece 13,384
Kenya 11,882
Bulgaria 11,426
Hong Kong 10,692
Namibia 7,847
Croatia 5,618
Serbia 5,618
Sri Lanka 5,606
Hungary 5,188
Cyprus 4,821
Morocco 4,435
Tanzania 4,425
Ukraine 4,126
Slovenia 3,789

Showing the top 40 of 154 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.