🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Eurasian Hoopoe live?

Upupa epops has 1,290,798 records in 156 countries and territories, from 1626 to 2026. Most records come from Spain.

Eurasian Hoopoe
Eurasian Hoopoe — Greg Schechter from San Francisco, USA / CC BY 2.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesBucerotiformesUpupidaeUpupa

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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
Spain 326,998
France 190,236
India 186,537
Portugal 102,335
Israel 57,530
South Africa 32,246
United Arab Emirates 29,804
China 27,484
Türkiye 24,539
Taiwan 21,847
Thailand 19,902
Greece 18,563
Sweden 16,467
Italy 12,781
Netherlands 12,094
Kenya 10,638
Bulgaria 9,987
Germany 8,887
Ukraine 7,876
Russia 7,380
Poland 7,325
Hungary 7,006
Egypt 6,906
Morocco 6,449
Tanzania 5,895
Georgia 5,313
Iran 5,211
Romania 5,190
Cyprus 4,946
Austria 4,685
Nepal 4,462
Botswana 4,253
Namibia 4,043
Mongolia 3,534
Ethiopia 3,324
Saudi Arabia 3,283
Kuwait 3,227
Cambodia 3,201
Kazakhstan 3,035
Sri Lanka 3,009

Showing the top 40 of 156 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.