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Where does the Red Admiral live?

Vanessa atalanta has 3,155,721 records in 96 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Red Admiral
Red Admiral — Photo: Christian Fischer · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraNymphalidaeVanessa

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. 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

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United Kingdom 1,321,268
Netherlands 603,157
France 279,441
Belgium 185,807
Germany 141,419
Switzerland 129,327
United States 94,812
Sweden 69,776
Denmark 57,596
Finland 53,036
Austria 31,908
Spain 28,879
Canada 27,640
Norway 22,400
Ireland 21,432
Italy 10,452
Guernsey 9,540
Poland 7,462
Jersey 7,177
Serbia 6,680
Luxembourg 5,679
Portugal 5,275
Russia 4,812
Isle of Man 3,988
Hungary 2,993
Lithuania 2,516
Czechia 2,402
Israel 2,275
Greece 2,159
Ukraine 2,055
Estonia 1,994
Mexico 1,720
Åland Islands 1,235
Croatia 991
Romania 923
Türkiye 830
Slovenia 738
Bulgaria 632
Slovakia 508
Liechtenstein 344

Showing the top 40 of 96 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.