๐Ÿพ What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Manx Shearwater live?

Puffinus puffinus has 203,395 records in 98 countries and territories, from 1838 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Manx Shearwater
Manx Shearwater โ€” Martin Reith / CC BY-SA 3.0 ยท source
AnimaliaChordataAvesProcellariiformesProcellariidaePuffinus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. 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 Kingdom 78,049
Ireland 35,203
United States 32,097
Spain 9,826
Portugal 6,027
Isle of Man 5,383
France 5,315
Canada 4,780
Sweden 4,638
Norway 3,364
Iceland 2,401
Argentina 2,096
Belgium 1,715
Faroe Islands 1,584
Denmark 1,463
Netherlands 1,329
Guadeloupe 1,015
Brazil 577
Chile 571
Bermuda 454
South Africa 397
Uruguay 262
Germany 217
Cabo Verde 206
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 191
Morocco 182
ZZ 179
Senegal 158
Finland 149
Italy 145
Russia 141
Guernsey 138
Poland 137
Greece 129
Ukraine 111
Greenland 74
Falkland Islands 67
St Vincent & the Grenadines 65
Mexico 60
Costa Rica 59

Showing the top 40 of 98 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months โ€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map โ€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.