What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Gadwall been recorded?

Mareca strepera occurrence evidence comes from 691,118 records in 43 countries and territories, from 1851 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Gadwall
Gadwall — Photo (display-sized rendition): Andreas Trepte · CC BY-SA 2.5 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesAnseriformesAnatidaeMareca

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

691,118 records across 43 countries and territories, 1851–2026.

Mareca strepera · GBIF taxon key 9362027

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: April.

12 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: April. 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.

Records over time

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Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Gadwall has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Gadwall. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 459,990
Belgium 203,765
United States 11,334
Austria 7,367
United Kingdom 2,668
Germany 2,094
Canada 1,017
South Korea 796
Netherlands 534
Luxembourg 315
Spain 258
Russia 252
Ukraine 212
Mongolia 72
China 62
Mexico 57
Estonia 53
Czechia 48
India 43
Japan 31
France 29
Denmark 21
ZZ 19
Portugal 14
Finland 12
Italy 11
Bangladesh 7
Albania 6
Iceland 4
Armenia 3
Belarus 3
Iran 3
Kazakhstan 3
Afghanistan 2
Switzerland 2
Romania 2
Åland Islands 1
Greece 1
Ireland 1
Israel 1

Showing the top 40 of 43 places.

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Repeated records across many years and months. 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.