๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Atlantic Puffin live?

Fratercula arctica has 304,263 records in 58 countries and territories, from 1534 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Atlantic Puffin
Atlantic Puffin โ€” Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesAlcidaeFratercula

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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 Kingdom 140,249
United States 41,529
Canada 26,288
Norway 23,863
Iceland 19,075
Faroe Islands 17,109
Sweden 6,398
Ireland 5,604
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 5,160
Spain 3,687
Isle of Man 3,566
France 2,882
Portugal 1,876
Netherlands 1,467
Denmark 1,465
Russia 942
Greenland 472
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 393
Germany 293
Belgium 185
Italy 179
Finland 173
Poland 131
Greece 126
Guernsey 117
Ukraine 98
Jersey 75
Romania 50
ZZ 50
Hungary 39
Belarus 37
Croatia 36
Austria 35
Morocco 35
Bulgaria 34
Latvia 33
Czechia 29
Lithuania 27
Gibraltar 24
Estonia 23

Showing the top 40 of 58 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.