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Where does the Canada Goose (canadensis Group) live?

Branta canadensis has 23,288,753 records in 79 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Canada Goose (canadensis Group)
Canada Goose (canadensis Group) β€” USFWS Mountain-Prairie / Public domain Β· source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeBranta

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 16,700,497
Canada 3,738,077
Sweden 871,645
United Kingdom 657,704
Belgium 387,261
Netherlands 361,234
Norway 169,799
Germany 127,798
Denmark 110,930
France 62,757
New Zealand 53,055
Finland 29,161
Luxembourg 2,910
Estonia 2,555
Austria 2,021
Spain 1,166
Italy 961
Ireland 903
Poland 896
Isle of Man 837
Czechia 670
Bermuda 600
Mexico 596
Greenland 502
Portugal 478
Iceland 470
Russia 404
Γ…land Islands 361
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 361
Switzerland 296
United Arab Emirates 269
Greece 225
Lithuania 188
Bahamas 116
Ukraine 111
Latvia 109
Romania 108
Australia 83
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 82
Belarus 72

Showing the top 40 of 79 places.

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