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Where does the Northern Pintail live?

Anas acuta has 3,651,976 records in 188 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Northern Pintail
Northern Pintail — J.M.Garg / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeAnas

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. 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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United States 1,861,447
Canada 477,848
Sweden 278,851
Netherlands 183,475
Denmark 130,107
United Kingdom 111,049
India 92,868
France 63,630
Belgium 61,472
Norway 57,913
Taiwan 47,405
Spain 47,077
Japan 31,797
Germany 24,096
Mexico 21,946
Finland 15,544
Russia 15,091
Israel 11,689
Portugal 11,643
Poland 7,676
United Arab Emirates 7,065
South Korea 6,987
China 6,762
Türkiye 5,566
Italy 5,406
Iceland 4,148
Greece 4,086
Hong Kong 3,951
Austria 3,630
Switzerland 3,610
Czechia 3,161
Ireland 2,615
Bulgaria 2,444
Hungary 2,304
Oman 2,145
Mongolia 1,991
Thailand 1,972
Ukraine 1,926
Estonia 1,364
United States Minor Outlying Islands 1,343

Showing the top 40 of 188 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.