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Where does the Tufted Duck live?

Aythya fuligula has 3,951,066 records in 135 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Netherlands.

Tufted Duck
Tufted Duck — Alexis Lours / CC BY 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeAythya

When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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
Netherlands 851,727
Sweden 788,641
United Kingdom 554,439
Denmark 409,060
Norway 267,328
Belgium 215,251
Germany 189,130
France 150,273
Finland 55,827
Russia 39,507
Japan 36,747
Taiwan 34,711
Spain 34,167
Iceland 29,317
Czechia 28,258
Austria 27,668
Estonia 26,790
Poland 25,862
India 22,780
Switzerland 22,723
United States 20,519
Italy 12,672
Canada 12,157
Ireland 12,076
China 7,598
Portugal 7,260
South Korea 7,120
Türkiye 4,794
Israel 4,668
Hong Kong 4,608
Ukraine 3,669
Mongolia 3,311
Slovakia 2,745
Bulgaria 2,605
Hungary 2,595
Belarus 2,388
Lithuania 2,043
Luxembourg 1,848
Greece 1,752
Åland Islands 1,703

Showing the top 40 of 135 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.