Bird Sighting
Garganey
Spatula querquedula · Anatidae (Ducks, Swans and Geese)
23/04/2023 · Maw Green Tip, South area
- Date
- 23/04/2023
- Location
- Maw Green Tip
- Recording area
- South area
- Grid reference
- SJ 7175 5764
- Observer
- admin
Grid reference: SJ 7175 5764 53.11523, -2.42344 Open in OpenStreetMap
Garganey in our records
- Records
- 4
- First recorded
- 19/04/2022
- Last recorded
- 15/05/2026
- Places
- Pump House Flash, Elton Hall Flash, Maw Green Tip
Other recent records
About the Garganey
The garganey (Spatula querquedula) is a small dabbling duck. It breeds in much of Europe and across the Palearctic, but is strictly migratory, with the entire population moving to Africa, India (in particular Santragachi), Bangladesh (in the natural reservoirs of Sylhet district) and Australasia during the winter of the Northern hemisphere, where large flocks can occur. This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Like other small ducks such as the Eurasian teal, this species rises easily from the water with a fast twisting wader-like flight.
Their breeding habitat is grassland adjacent to shallow marshes and steppe lakes.
- Conservation status (IUCN)
- Least Concern
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