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Where does the Ivory Gull live?

Pagophila eburnea has 17,801 records in 54 countries and territories, from 1817 to 2026. Most records come from Svalbard and Jan Mayen.

Ivory Gull
Ivory Gull — Photo: Samuel Etienne · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesCharadriiformesLaridaePagophila

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

18172026

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
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 4,910
United States 3,425
Canada 2,739
Sweden 1,461
Greenland 895
Denmark 573
United Kingdom 483
Norway 384
Russia 349
Poland 313
France 303
Netherlands 212
Spain 186
Germany 185
Finland 153
Italy 145
Greece 125
Iceland 105
Portugal 98
Ukraine 98
Ireland 62
Romania 50
Hungary 39
Belarus 37
Croatia 36
Austria 35
Bulgaria 34
Latvia 33
Czechia 29
Lithuania 27
Estonia 23
Serbia 23
Bosnia & Herzegovina 19
Slovakia 18
Switzerland 17
Moldova 13
Belgium 12
Türkiye 10
ZZ 10
North Macedonia 9

Showing the top 40 of 54 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.