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Where does the Snow Bunting live?

Plectrophenax nivalis has 932,348 records in 65 countries and territories, from 1745 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Snow Bunting
Snow Bunting — Photo: Drew Avery · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaChordataAvesPasseriformesCalcariidaePlectrophenax

When it is recorded

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Peak month: November. 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

17452026

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
United States 291,144
Canada 278,073
Sweden 133,811
Denmark 44,991
Norway 44,382
Netherlands 38,554
United Kingdom 21,729
Iceland 17,149
Finland 13,432
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 11,497
Russia 6,879
France 5,758
Estonia 4,580
Germany 4,356
Greenland 3,249
Belgium 2,946
Spain 2,001
Poland 1,501
Portugal 1,082
Ireland 648
Czechia 524
Italy 464
Ukraine 387
Bermuda 360
Åland Islands 349
Lithuania 210
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 208
Japan 206
Greece 189
Latvia 187
Belarus 178
Austria 151
Isle of Man 146
Hungary 129
China 113
Switzerland 103
Türkiye 85
Romania 84
Bulgaria 83
Slovakia 76

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.