What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Dovekie been recorded?

Alle alle occurrence evidence comes from 20,019 records in 10 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Dovekie
Dovekie — Photo (display-sized rendition): Ma-ludw, https://ludwig-photography.ch · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesCharadriiformesAlcidaeAlle

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

20,019 records across 10 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Alle alle · GBIF taxon key 2481299

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: November.

5 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

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Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Dovekie has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Dovekie. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 15,369
United States 3,168
Canada 856
Belgium 525
Greenland 50
Netherlands 18
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 17
United Kingdom 12
Iceland 3
France 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.