๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Bar-headed Goose live?

Anser indicus has 151,994 records in 63 countries and territories, from 1877 to 2026. Most records come from India.

Bar-headed Goose
Bar-headed Goose โ€” Tisha Mukherjee / CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeAnser

When it is recorded

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Peak month: January. 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
India 49,130
Netherlands 24,000
Belgium 22,866
Sweden 19,680
Germany 6,943
Norway 5,443
Denmark 3,938
France 3,931
China 3,155
United Kingdom 3,124
Mongolia 2,624
Spain 1,399
Nepal 947
Austria 733
United States 663
Russia 472
Italy 436
Taiwan 375
Bhutan 345
Finland 239
Switzerland 235
Bangladesh 154
Poland 154
Canada 119
South Korea 115
United Arab Emirates 110
Thailand 99
Czechia 77
Myanmar 67
Pakistan 64
Estonia 56
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 50
Jersey 30
Hungary 25
Ireland 23
Kyrgyzstan 18
Luxembourg 16
Croatia 15
Lithuania 13
Romania 13

Showing the top 40 of 63 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.