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Where does the Mew Gull live?

Larus canus has 3,398,916 records in 108 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Mew Gull
Mew Gull — Andreas Trepte / CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesLaridaeLarus

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
Sweden 958,317
Norway 618,084
Denmark 440,876
United Kingdom 377,912
Finland 278,478
Netherlands 201,180
Belgium 106,333
Germany 90,565
Russia 58,029
Estonia 44,522
France 44,190
Poland 26,589
Ireland 25,076
United States 19,904
Spain 11,263
Iceland 9,689
Italy 9,253
Switzerland 7,373
Czechia 6,025
Portugal 5,893
Austria 5,732
Åland Islands 5,662
Lithuania 5,227
Ukraine 4,615
Japan 4,338
Canada 3,624
Latvia 2,876
Hungary 2,866
Türkiye 2,705
Belarus 2,389
Isle of Man 2,290
South Korea 2,063
China 1,929
Faroe Islands 1,289
Slovakia 1,033
Bulgaria 1,025
Romania 958
Serbia 709
Greece 607
Kazakhstan 602

Showing the top 40 of 108 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.