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Where does the Common Eider live?

Somateria mollissima has 2,738,312 records in 58 countries and territories, from 1742 to 2026. Most records come from United States.

Common Eider
Common Eider — Ryzhkov Sergey / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaChordataAvesAnseriformesAnatidaeSomateria

When it is recorded

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Peak month: May. 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 592,297
Norway 475,525
Sweden 468,924
Denmark 346,414
Canada 310,526
Netherlands 141,691
Finland 104,637
United Kingdom 100,064
Iceland 63,118
Germany 39,460
Svalbard and Jan Mayen 20,541
Estonia 16,939
France 9,371
Isle of Man 9,184
Russia 6,784
Åland Islands 5,509
Spain 5,283
Belgium 4,902
Faroe Islands 4,040
Greenland 2,631
Poland 2,031
Switzerland 1,586
Saint Pierre and Miquelon 1,441
Ireland 1,333
Ukraine 784
Italy 666
Portugal 606
Austria 537
Czechia 239
Greece 170
Türkiye 165
Latvia 156
Croatia 125
Bulgaria 120
Lithuania 79
Hungary 75
Romania 74
Belarus 67
Serbia 36
Slovakia 26

Showing the top 40 of 58 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.