🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Red-throated Loon live?

Gavia stellata has 1,439,859 records in 71 countries and territories, from 1833 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Red-throated Loon
Red-throated Loon — Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesGaviiformesGaviidaeGavia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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 611,008
Sweden 223,117
Norway 133,589
Denmark 119,891
Canada 111,776
United Kingdom 75,299
Netherlands 59,473
Finland 18,194
Iceland 17,102
France 10,992
Germany 9,842
Estonia 8,754
Belgium 8,302
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 5,407
Ireland 5,121
Spain 4,312
Poland 2,348
Russia 2,242
Italy 1,541
Isle of Man 1,075
Greenland 1,073
Czechia 1,051
Japan 872
Mexico 856
Portugal 561
Austria 546
Faroe Islands 483
Lithuania 431
Greece 429
Switzerland 371
South Korea 367
Croatia 333
Ukraine 293
China 289
Bulgaria 264
Romania 258
Türkiye 231
Hungary 210
Latvia 210
Belarus 201

Showing the top 40 of 71 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Gaviidae.

Common Loon
Common Loon
3,214,473 records
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.