Eurasian Beaver
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Eurasian Beaver

Castor fiber

Least ConcernNear ThreatenedVulnerableEndangeredCritically Endangered
Insufficient data
overall probability at Gauja National Park
4 Verified records at Gauja National Park
🌅 Crepuscular When it's active at dawn and dusk

The Eurasian beaver (Castor fiber) or European beaver is a species of beaver widespread across Eurasia, with a rapidly increasing population of at least 1.5 million in 2020. The Eurasian beaver was hunted to near-extinction for both its fur and castoreum, with only about 1,200 beavers in eight relict populations from France to Mongolia in the early 20th century. It has since been reintroduced into much of its former range and now lives from Western, Southern, Central and Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Russia through China and Mongolia, with about half the population in Russia. It is listed as least concern on the IUCN Red List. Wikipedia →

Closest Relatives at Gauja National Park

Eurasian Red Squirrel
LC Endemic

Eurasian Red Squirrel

☀️ Diurnal Mammal

Sciurus vulgaris

20–30% · Possible
Yellow-necked Field Mouse
LC

Yellow-necked Field Mouse

Mammal

Apodemus flavicollis

Insufficient data
Bank Vole

Bank Vole

☀️ Diurnal Mammal

Myodes glareolus

Insufficient data

📅 Monthly Probability

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Fewer than 5 records of Eurasian Beaver at Gauja National Park — not enough to chart months honestly.

🌅 When They're Spotted

Most active at dawn and dusk · across all parks (global)

🌅Crepuscular
☀️🌙🌙12am6am12pm6pm12am

Global Distribution

Where this species is recorded worldwide. Restricted to human observations from 2019 onwards — the same kind of record and the same period the probabilities on this page are built from, so collar-tracking studies, camera-trap arrays and museum specimens are excluded. Around Santa Rosa that removes 5,924 GPS fixes from a handful of tagged jaguars.

where this species is recorded (GBIF density — it tracks where observers go, not how likely a sighting is)  ·  parks where it occurs — tap a pin for the sighting probability there

Parks Where Found

# Park Country Probability
1 Białowieża National Park 🇵🇱 Poland
40–50%
2 Bavarian Forest National Park 🇩🇪 Germany
30–40%
3 Tatra National Park 🇸🇰 Slovakia
30–40%
4 Cévennes National Park 🇫🇷 France
20–30%
5 Biebrza National Park 🇵🇱 Poland
20–30%
6 Kiskunság National Park 🇭🇺 Hungary
20–30%
7 Cairngorms National Park 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
10–20%
8 Fertő-Hanság National Park 🇭🇺 Hungary
10–20%
9 Hortobágy National Park 🇭🇺 Hungary
10–20%
10 Wadden Sea National Park 🇩🇪 Germany
5–10%
11 Pyrénées National Park 🇫🇷 France
<5%
12 Gauja National Park 🇱🇻 Latvia
Insufficient data
13 Snowdonia National Park 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
Insufficient data
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