Italy
What is recorded in Italy
- Species
- 5,961
- Grid cells
- 23,810
- Records
- 1,501,687
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 5,422
- Bony fish 224
- Birds 158
- Mammals 62
- Reptiles 47
- Amphibians 32
- Sharks and rays 16
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Italy, 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 Italy, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Alpine Chamois
Rupicapra rupicapra
Alpine Ibex
Capra ibex
Italian Sparrow
Passer italiae
Alpine Marmot
Marmota marmota
Western Roe Deer
Capreolus capreolus
Yellow-legged Gull
Larus michahellis
Hooded Crow
Corvus cornix
Red Deer
Cervus elaphus
Common Frog
Rana temporaria
Alpine Chough
Pyrrhocorax graculus
Greater Flamingo
Phoenicopterus roseus
Pink drifts across Walvis Bay's lagoons after the rains.
Bearded Vulture
Gypaetus barbatus
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Italy.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Italy on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.