Spain
What is recorded in Spain
- Species
- 7,055
- Grid cells
- 57,021
- Records
- 15,216,398
- Years covered
- 1980-2026
- Insects 5,870
- Bony fish 488
- Birds 451
- Reptiles 91
- Mammals 76
- Sharks and rays 45
- Amphibians 32
- Chimaeras 2
These are species with at least one recorded territory in Spain, 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 Spain, among those a photograph exists for. Most recorded is not most numerous: it rewards animals that are common, conspicuous and live where people go.
Spotless Starling
Sturnus unicolor
Yellow-legged Gull
Larus michahellis
European Serin
Serinus serinus
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Larus fuscus
Sardinian Warbler
Curruca melanocephala
Griffon Vulture
Gyps fulvus
Eurasian Magpie
Pica pica
Cetti's Warbler
Cettia cetti
Common Blackbird
Turdus merula
European Goldfinch
Carduelis carduelis
Crested Lark
Galerida cristata
White Stork
Ciconia ciconia
No regions recorded yet
The reference database has no regions filed under Spain.
Nothing written up here yet
The field guide covers Spain on the map, but none of its species have an entry written for them yet.