Garganey
Spatula querquedula
CommonPhoto: Ferran Pestaña from Barcelona, España · CC BY-SA 2.0
Birdomnivore
The garganey is a small, lively duck that breeds across Europe and Asia before flying south to warmer places like Africa and Australia for winter. These speedy little ducks twist through the air like shorebirds when taking off from water.
- Makes long seasonal migrations between Europe/Asia and Africa/Australia
- Takes off from water with a quick, twisting flight
- First scientifically described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758
WetlandFreshwaterEuropeAsiaAfrica
Read more on WikipediaAt a glance
- Classification
- Bird
- Scientific name
- Spatula querquedula
- Habitat
- Wetland, Freshwater
- Regions in this directory
- Europe, Asia, Africa
- Diet
- omnivore
- Relative size
- small
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern (LC)
