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Where does the Northern Gannet live?

Morus bassanus has 2,162,808 records in 86 countries and territories, from 1534 to 2026. Most records come from Canada.

Northern Gannet
Northern Gannet — Andreas Trepte / CC BY-SA 2.5 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesSuliformesSulidaeMorus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. 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
Canada 521,430
United States 463,038
United Kingdom 405,716
Denmark 131,933
France 104,222
Norway 81,978
Portugal 79,409
Spain 76,703
Sweden 72,245
Ireland 72,175
Netherlands 57,517
Belgium 32,047
Isle of Man 16,622
Germany 13,637
Iceland 11,740
Faroe Islands 3,831
Italy 3,780
Morocco 2,693
Guernsey 2,596
Gibraltar 748
Jersey 671
Senegal 670
Israel 430
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 420
Poland 377
Western Sahara 375
Russia 257
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 202
Türkiye 195
Algeria 190
Cabo Verde 188
Finland 182
Mauritania 169
Greece 150
Gambia 117
Tunisia 117
Ukraine 98
Bermuda 84
Croatia 75
ZZ 75

Showing the top 40 of 86 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.