Least ConcernBarnacle Goose
Branta leucopsis
One of the 3 dabbling ducks on WAnimals
Birds · Anseriformes · Anatidae
Mareca strepera
The species is abundant and widely distributed; it faces no significant short-term risk.
A medium-sized duck with deliberately unobtrusive plumage, greyish brown in the male and brown in the female. The breeding male has the back, breast and flanks finely vermiculated in black, black rump and uppertail coverts, and long, pointed silver-grey tertials. The diagnostic feature in both sexes is the white speculum, very visible in flight among the black coverts.
Weight
550 g – 1 kg
Size
46 cm – 56 cm
Diet
Herbivore
Feeds mainly on plants.
Activity
Diurnal
Active mainly during the day.
Sources consulted: IUCN Red List · SEO/BirdLife (ficha y III Atlas: Lorenzo 2022) · Asturnatura · Madge y Burn 1988, Wildfowl · Johnson y Sorenson 1999 · Svensson et al. 2001 · Linnaeus 1758
Best time: Spring, when it breeds in the wetlands of central and southern Spain
Parks and dive sites where this species has been documented — showing 10 of 88.
Other species in the catalogue with the most in common with Gadwall — same habitat, park, country, tags or family.
Based on what we already know about gadwall.
The pins mark the parks where its presence is documented.
