Glossary · also occurrence record
Sighting record
A dated, located observation of a species, as collected by GBIF from museums, surveys and citizen-science projects.
Country lists and maps on this site count openly licensed sighting records. They show where a species has been recorded, which includes zoo animals and introduced populations and leaves out places where nobody has submitted a record.
They are not range maps and should not be read as “lives in”.
Related terms
- Source
- The dataset a value was taken from. Every fact on this site links to its source.
- Introduced
- Living in a place because people brought the species there, deliberately or by accident, rather than through natural spread.