๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Iceland Gull live?

Larus glaucoides has 520,029 records in 63 countries and territories, from 1829 to 2026. Most records come from Canada.

Iceland Gull
Iceland Gull โ€” Photo: Seabamirum on Flickr ยท CC BY 2.0 ยท Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesLaridaeLarus

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Canada 222,428
United States 210,990
Iceland 20,398
Netherlands 15,201
Norway 14,735
United Kingdom 10,722
Sweden 7,527
Denmark 3,291
Greenland 2,432
Spain 2,105
Ireland 1,698
Belgium 1,442
France 1,226
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 1,135
Portugal 1,021
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 564
Germany 446
Mexico 355
Russia 274
Faroe Islands 265
Finland 192
Japan 186
Poland 173
Bermuda 150
Italy 145
Greece 125
Ukraine 113
Romania 50
Isle of Man 47
Hungary 43
Belarus 40
Croatia 36
Austria 35
Bulgaria 34
Switzerland 33
Czechia 33
Latvia 33
South Korea 31
Estonia 29
Lithuania 27

Showing the top 40 of 63 places.

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Great Black-backed Gull
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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.