๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Glaucous Gull live?

Larus hyperboreus has 429,762 records in 71 countries and territories, from 1829 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Glaucous Gull
Glaucous Gull โ€” Alastair Rae from London, UK / CC BY-SA 2.0 ยท source
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
United States 173,394
Canada 118,598
Iceland 28,234
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 21,951
Norway 17,865
Sweden 15,834
Netherlands 15,261
United Kingdom 10,674
Denmark 5,229
Greenland 5,195
Japan 3,332
Russia 3,168
Belgium 1,498
Spain 1,458
Ireland 1,246
France 1,245
Portugal 1,086
South Korea 784
Finland 750
Germany 445
Faroe Islands 380
Poland 307
China 170
Italy 154
Estonia 131
Greece 126
Ukraine 117
Bermuda 76
Isle of Man 71
Czechia 57
Hungary 55
Morocco 53
Romania 53
Belarus 51
Mexico 50
ZZ 42
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 41
Latvia 38
Austria 37
Croatia 36

Showing the top 40 of 71 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.