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Where does the Ferruginous Duck live?

Aythya nyroca has 165,498 records in 109 countries and territories, from 1838 to 2026. Most records come from India.

Ferruginous Duck
Ferruginous Duck — Photo: Francis Franklin · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeAythya

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.

Records over time

18382026

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
India 20,286
Netherlands 18,375
Spain 16,224
Israel 11,394
France 7,066
China 5,976
Belgium 5,512
Italy 5,368
Hungary 4,475
Türkiye 4,387
Greece 4,385
Sweden 4,031
Germany 3,773
United Arab Emirates 3,428
Bulgaria 3,369
Romania 3,302
United Kingdom 3,240
Croatia 3,026
Portugal 2,811
Serbia 2,794
Denmark 2,509
Egypt 2,377
Taiwan 2,193
Cyprus 1,802
Morocco 1,746
Poland 1,697
Kuwait 1,619
Switzerland 1,363
Austria 1,344
Thailand 1,108
Ukraine 1,048
Iran 994
Czechia 810
Nepal 790
Kazakhstan 683
Russia 664
Slovakia 631
Bosnia & Herzegovina 615
Armenia 505
Slovenia 471

Showing the top 40 of 109 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.