France
What is recorded in France
- Species
- 16,375
- Grid cells
- 228,698
- Records
- 29,214,400
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 15,249
- Birds 424
- Bony fish 421
- Mammals 151
- Reptiles 53
- Amphibians 43
- Sharks and rays 33
- Chimaeras 1
These are species with at least one recorded territory in France, 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 France, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Common Pipistrelle
Pipistrellus pipistrellus
Herring Gull
Larus argentatus
Great Tit
Parus major
Common Chaffinch
Fringilla coelebs
Western Roe Deer
Capreolus capreolus
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscus
Common Blackbird
Turdus merula
Eurasian Blackcap
Sylvia atricapilla
European Robin
Erithacus rubecula
Eurasian Magpie
Pica pica
Eurasian Blue Tit
Cyanistes caeruleus
Kuhl's Pipistrelle
Pipistrellus kuhlii
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under France.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers France on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.