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Where does the Common Goldeneye live?

Bucephala clangula has 5,959,787 records in 83 countries and territories, from 1792 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Common Goldeneye
Common Goldeneye — Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/sbern/ · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeBucephala

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

17922026

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
United States 2,004,840
Sweden 1,187,912
Canada 1,057,587
Norway 576,083
Denmark 323,866
Netherlands 205,851
Finland 155,202
United Kingdom 143,296
Germany 57,044
Estonia 53,092
Belgium 36,962
Russia 35,189
France 24,489
Poland 20,226
Austria 10,538
Czechia 8,848
Japan 7,774
Lithuania 4,507
Switzerland 4,441
China 4,374
Ukraine 4,037
South Korea 3,543
Mongolia 2,817
Belarus 2,754
Ireland 2,594
Latvia 2,282
Italy 2,265
Hungary 2,212
Åland Islands 1,624
Iceland 1,274
Spain 1,199
Mexico 1,158
Slovakia 1,127
Romania 1,122
Serbia 922
Bulgaria 862
Slovenia 606
Greece 559
Türkiye 488
Taiwan 465

Showing the top 40 of 83 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.