🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the American Wigeon live?

Mareca americana has 3,629,705 records in 80 countries and territories, from 1837 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeMareca

When it is recorded

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Peak month: March. 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 2,780,341
Canada 792,080
Mexico 20,527
Sweden 6,482
Netherlands 4,633
Portugal 3,421
United Kingdom 3,125
Bermuda 2,005
Norway 1,677
Cuba 1,514
Honduras 1,369
Japan 1,342
Denmark 1,113
Puerto Rico 883
Iceland 684
Bahamas 652
Costa Rica 652
Belize 592
Guatemala 514
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 454
Belgium 407
Panama 407
Dominican Republic 376
Spain 360
United States Minor Outlying Islands 320
El Salvador 295
Taiwan 295
Nicaragua 293
CuraΓ§ao 276
China 237
Jamaica 217
Ireland 209
Cayman Islands 172
Colombia 152
Haiti 147
France 141
Aruba 133
Barbados 129
Germany 127
Finland 112

Showing the top 40 of 80 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.