Belgium
What is recorded in Belgium
- Species
- 3,628
- Grid cells
- 20,357
- Records
- 17,007,211
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 3,084
- Birds 352
- Bony fish 101
- Mammals 60
- Reptiles 14
- Amphibians 11
- Sharks and rays 6
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Belgium, not a national checklist: a bird list from eBird or Avibase is more complete. The counts follow recording effort as much as wildlife, so a country with more visitors and more naturalists will show more of both.
Most recorded here
The species with the most open occurrence records in Belgium, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Herring Gull
Larus argentatus
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscus
Common Buzzard
Buteo buteo
Common Wood Pigeon
Columba palumbus
Common Blackbird
Turdus merula
Common Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebs
Common Chiffchaff
Phylloscopus collybita
European Robin
Erithacus rubecula
Eurasian Wren
Troglodytes troglodytes
Eurasian Coot
Fulica atra
Grey Heron
Ardea cinerea
Great Tit
Parus major
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Belgium.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Belgium on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.