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Where does the Red-breasted Merganser live?

Mergus serrator has 3,935,996 records in 107 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Red-breasted Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser — Needsmoreritalin / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeMergus

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 1,868,915
Canada 580,235
Sweden 425,240
Norway 413,492
Denmark 247,321
Netherlands 123,987
United Kingdom 74,747
Iceland 35,342
Finland 28,426
Estonia 22,774
France 21,529
Germany 12,408
Japan 9,431
Mexico 8,174
Russia 7,515
Ireland 6,799
Belgium 5,860
Spain 5,733
Italy 4,696
Poland 3,789
Cuba 2,725
South Korea 2,684
Bulgaria 2,048
Switzerland 1,856
Portugal 1,828
Faroe Islands 1,424
Türkiye 1,394
Greece 1,336
Ukraine 1,320
China 1,271
Åland Islands 1,046
Czechia 981
Bahamas 874
Croatia 868
Slovenia 733
Taiwan 648
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 632
Greenland 606
Austria 571
Latvia 343

Showing the top 40 of 107 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.