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Callum Macgregor

Medium-sized duck with extremely large, circumpolar breeding range across wetlands in sub-arctic and boreal zone of Europe, Asia and North America. More scattered breeding in central Europe and Scandinavia. Winters Western Europe, North Africa and Sahel zone, Middle East, India, Southeast Asia, north America. Slight decline but population very large. Prefers open grassland, prairie or tundra habitats with wetlands. In winter on lakes, coastal marshes, estuaries, tidal areas and river deltas. Diet omnivorous. Hunted in France, Italy, Spain, Greece, Denmark, Finland, Baltic States and Russia.

Season of assessment

B

Population trendDecreasing
Population size
(min-max, best estimate)
310000-401000,353000
Red List categoryVU
Franks, S., Fiedler, W., Arizaga, J., Jiguet, F., Nikolov, B., van der Jeugd, Ambrosini, R, Aizpurua, O., Bairlein, F., Clark, J., Fattorini, N, Hammond, M., Higgins, D, Levering, H., Skellorn, W., Spina, F, Thorup, K. Walker, J., Woodward, I. and Baillie, S.R. (1) (2022) Online Atlas of the movements of European bird populations. https://migrationatlas.org EURING/CMS (1) Principal investigator
N records N individuals N recoveries
Mapped data*
Total available data
*Mapped data include only distant (>= 50 km) recoveries