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Where does the Mallard live?

Anas platyrhynchos has 29,616,183 records in 192 countries and territories, from 1779 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Mallard
Mallard — This picture was realized by Richard Bartz by using a Canon EF 70-300mm f/4-5.6 IS USM Lens / CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeAnas

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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 16,055,905
Canada 3,859,022
Sweden 1,476,419
United Kingdom 1,153,145
Netherlands 1,101,088
Norway 780,030
Denmark 776,115
France 742,932
Spain 689,288
Germany 494,512
Belgium 433,494
Russia 183,180
Portugal 180,275
New Zealand 158,372
Finland 143,359
Italy 104,278
Poland 102,144
Czechia 101,491
Japan 84,698
Austria 75,523
Estonia 72,010
Australia 67,061
Iceland 63,181
Israel 62,942
Switzerland 60,075
Ireland 52,386
China 44,470
South Korea 43,391
Türkiye 31,558
Bulgaria 31,156
Ukraine 30,875
Taiwan 25,679
Hungary 24,033
Serbia 22,839
Mexico 19,497
India 17,929
Greece 17,245
Croatia 16,197
United Arab Emirates 15,850
South Africa 15,713

Showing the top 40 of 192 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.