Garganey

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Garganey
Male

Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Spatula
Species:
S. querquedula
Binomial name
Spatula querquedula
Synonyms
  • Anas querquedula Linnaeus, 1758
  • Anas circia Linnaeus, 1758

The garganey (Spatula querquedula) is a 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.

Taxonomy

The first

Spatula.[5] This genus had been originally proposed by the German zoologist Friedrich Boie in 1822.[6][7] The name Spatula is the Latin for a "spoon" or "spatula". The specific epithet is derived from Latin querquedula, a word believed to represent to its call.[8]

The common English name dates from the 17th century and comes from

Historiae Animalium (History of Animals) of 1555.[10]

Description

Females
MHNT

The adult male is unmistakable, with its brown head and breast with a broad white crescent over the eye. The rest of the plumage is grey, with loose grey scapular feathers It has a grey bill and legs. In flight, it shows a pale blue

tertials. His crown (anatomy) is dark and his face is reddish brown.[11]

Some care is needed in separating the brown female from the similar

common teal, but the stronger face markings and more frequent head-shaking when dabbling are good indicators. Confusion with the female of the blue-winged teal is also possible, but the head and bill shape is different, and the latter species has yellow legs. Pale eyebrow, dark eye line, pale lore spot bordered by a second dark line.[11]

Measurements:[12]

  • Size: 41 cm
  • Wingspan: 58 – 69 cm.
  • Weight: 300- 440 g

These birds feed mainly by skimming rather than upending.

The male has a distinctive crackling mating call; the female is rather silent for a female duck, but can manage a feeble quack.

Garganey are rare breeding birds in the British Isles, with most breeding in quiet marshes in Norfolk and Suffolk. In Ireland a few pairs breed in County Wexford, and at Lough Beg in County Londonderry, with occasional breeding elsewhere.

The garganey is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (

least concern.[1]

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22680313A86016410.en
    . Retrieved 22 February 2022.
  2. ^ Clements, James (2007). The Clements Checklist of the Birds of the World. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
  3. ^ Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturæ per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis, Volume 1 (in Latin). Vol. v.1 (10th ed.). Holmiae:Laurentii Salvii. p. 126.
  4. doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.2009.00622.x
    .
  5. ^ Gill, Frank; Donsker, David, eds. (2017). "Screamers, ducks, geese & swans". World Bird List Version 7.3. International Ornithologists' Union. Retrieved 23 July 2017.
  6. ^ Boie, Friedrich (1822). "Generalübersicht". Isis von Oken (in German). 1822. Col 564.
  7. ^ Mayr, Ernst; Cottrell, G. William, eds. (1979). Check-list of Birds of the World. Vol. 1 (2nd ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: Museum of Comparative Zoology. p. 460.
  8. ISBN 978-1-4081-2501-4
    .
  9. American Heritage Dictionary
    . Retrieved 12 February 2015.
  10. ^ "Garganey". Oxford English Dictionary (Online ed.). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 1 June 2007. (Subscription or participating institution membership required.)
  11. ^ a b Dunn, J.; Alderfer, J. (2006). National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America (5th ed.).
  12. ^ Oiseaux.net. "Sarcelle d'été - Spatula querquedula - Garganey". www.oiseaux.net. Retrieved 2020-09-26.

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