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Eurasian Blue Tit

Cyanistes caeruleus. A tiny, acrobatic blue-and-yellow tit that is a mainstay of European bird feeders. Pooled openly through GBIF, the Eurasian Blue Tit has been recorded 8,500,835 times across 72 countries — most often in Sweden, France and Finland. The map above glows where those records cluster. Remember the map shows where it’s been recorded, which follows observers too — not its exact range or how many there are.

8.5Mopenly-licensed records
Records8,500,835
Countries72
MovementResident
Snapshot20 Jul 2026

Counts are GBIF occurrence records published under CC0 or CC-BY only (the openly-reusable subset), so they are a floor, not the full holding — and they track observer effort, not just the bird.

Where it’s recorded most

The countries contributing the most openly-licensed records of the Eurasian Blue Tit. This leans toward nations with many active birdwatchers and open data — it is a map of records, not of where the bird is most abundant.

2.0MSweden
1.4MFrance
1.2MFinland
1.1MUnited Kingdom
717KGermany
578KNorway
404KSpain
248KBelgium

How to read this map

Each bright cell is a cluster of times someone recorded a Eurasian Blue Titand shared it openly — a birder’s checklist, a photo, a museum specimen. It’s a real trace of the bird’s presence, but not a range map: the glow also follows where people look, so well-birded regions shine and quiet ones fade even if the bird is there. The Eurasian Blue Titis broadly resident, so its records tend to stay within its home region — concentrated where observers are, not spread by migration. There is no LIVE badge: the figures are a snapshot dated 20 Jul 2026.

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