🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the White-winged Scoter live?

Melanitta fusca has 622,299 records in 65 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

White-winged Scoter
White-winged Scoter — Photo: Vince · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeMelanitta

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.

Records over time

17902026

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 232,599
Norway 166,570
Denmark 85,506
United States 20,964
Netherlands 19,119
Finland 15,770
United Kingdom 15,055
Estonia 13,622
Germany 13,211
France 8,369
Poland 6,728
Lithuania 3,812
Belgium 3,745
Russia 3,223
Spain 2,314
Italy 1,670
Czechia 1,642
Canada 1,262
Åland Islands 1,134
Latvia 1,099
Austria 684
Switzerland 643
Ukraine 386
Ireland 355
Belarus 280
Hungary 263
Iceland 263
Greece 236
Portugal 183
Slovenia 179
Croatia 168
Bulgaria 138
Japan 137
Romania 135
Serbia 135
Slovakia 120
Türkiye 114
Georgia 111
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 78
China 65

Showing the top 40 of 65 places.

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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.