What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Garganey been recorded?

Spatula querquedula occurrence evidence comes from 181,129 records in 57 countries and territories, from 1790 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Garganey
Garganey — Photo (display-sized rendition): YedidyaPopper · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AvesAnseriformesAnatidaeSpatula

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

181,129 records across 57 countries and territories, 1790–2026.

Spatula querquedula · GBIF taxon key 9274012

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: May.

5 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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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.

Records over time

17902026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Garganey has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Garganey. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 141,610
Belgium 34,536
Austria 2,708
United Kingdom 833
Germany 383
Ukraine 214
Russia 197
Spain 159
Netherlands 132
South Korea 74
Luxembourg 34
Mongolia 23
Kenya 19
United States 19
India 16
Romania 13
Senegal 13
Denmark 10
Italy 10
Iran 9
Uganda 9
Bangladesh 8
Greece 8
Australia 7
China 7
Hong Kong 7
Bulgaria 6
Jordan 5
Thailand 5
Taiwan 5
Benin 4
Estonia 4
France 4
Czechia 3
Israel 3
Japan 3
Kazakhstan 3
Türkiye 3
Switzerland 2
Finland 2

Showing the top 40 of 57 places.

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Repeated records across many years and months. 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.