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Garganey

Spatula querquedula

Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl
Garganey, photographed by YedidyaPopper

Photo: YedidyaPopper · Wikimedia · CC-BY 4.0 (licence)

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About the Garganey

Small and often rather unobtrusive duck of wetlands with reedy and other fringing vegetation. Handsome male distinctive, with big white eyebrow on dark brown head, pale gray flanks; pale gray forewing striking in flight. Female very similar to female Green-winged Teal but head pattern more contrasting, with paler eyebrow, darker eyestripe, and unstreaked whitish throat. Breeds widely across Eurasia; winters in Africa and southern Asia. Migrants can be on more open water, even tidal mudflats. Associates readily with other ducks; feeds mainly by dabbling.

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Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 154 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

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