🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Eurasian Wigeon live?

Mareca penelope has 2,905,617 records in 137 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Eurasian Wigeon
Eurasian Wigeon — Laitche / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeMareca

When it is recorded

JFMAMJJASOND

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
Sweden 653,538
Netherlands 383,184
Denmark 367,249
United Kingdom 346,124
Norway 221,573
United States 153,923
Belgium 99,843
France 83,805
Taiwan 58,936
Germany 56,703
Japan 55,473
Canada 52,539
Spain 51,325
India 44,591
Finland 43,315
Iceland 30,872
Russia 25,546
Estonia 23,198
Poland 15,748
Ireland 14,452
Italy 10,850
Portugal 10,524
South Korea 8,973
China 8,662
Czechia 6,619
Austria 6,457
Türkiye 5,445
Hong Kong 5,314
Israel 5,079
Bulgaria 4,851
Greece 4,461
Switzerland 4,435
Hungary 3,655
United Arab Emirates 3,183
Ukraine 3,098
Isle of Man 2,664
Mongolia 2,437
Lithuania 2,147
Croatia 1,994
Slovenia 1,740

Showing the top 40 of 137 places.

Related animals

Others in the family Anatidae.

Mallard
Mallard
29,616,183 records
Canada Goose (canadensis Group)
Canada Goose (canadensis Group)
23,288,753 records
Green-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal
7,563,353 records
Gadwall
Gadwall
6,883,637 records
Mute Swan
Mute Swan
6,712,550 records
Northern Shoveler
Northern Shoveler
6,486,138 records
Common Goldeneye
Common Goldeneye
5,959,713 records
Common Merganser
Common Merganser
5,689,444 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.