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Garganey Duck Ducks

The Garganey is a small dabbling duck. It is highly migratory, breeding throughout Europe and central Asia and then flying south to Africa and Australasia during the winter.

The male Garganey has a brown head and breast, a distinctive broad white stripe or crescent over the brown eye, upperparts are dark brown with pale feather edges, loose black and white scapulars covering the green speculum, light greyish flanks and belly, and grey beak and legs.

The female is brownish with a dark crown and dark eye-stripe. The female Garganey is similar to the female Teal but has a white throat and is paler.

Eclipse

The male in Eclipse plumage is similar to the female but has a more reddish-brown plumage, and the wings retain the breeding colouration

Size

Typical Adult is 37-41cm (15-16in).

Food

Molluscs, crustaceans, aquatic insects, aquatic plants, seeds, and grain.

Habitat/Range

Wetlands, marshes, flooded grasslands, and lakes throughout Europe and central Asia. Winters in central Africa, and from Pakistan & India across to southern China, Philippines, Indonesia, and Australasia.

Breeding

From May onwards.

Eggs

approx. 11 (white colour).


River Cottage's collection of Ducks changes regularly. Please visit us regularly to keep up-to-date with our flock

 

 

£130 per pair

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