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Garganey
Anas querquedula
27.1755, 77.5198
Field Notes
Description:
Small, slight duck with large grey bill and flat crown; broad, white supercilium crossing to the back of mottled brown head and curving downwards to neck; grey flanks; brown breast and spotted brown stern; white underparts; silvery-blue forewings seen in flight
Female similar to Common Teal, but paler, more patterned head, mottled brownish and distinct eye-stripe; pale supercilium
Photo taken at Keoladeo National Park, Rajasthan, India
Habitat:
freshwater bodies; wetlands
Notes:
Info taken from: Birds of India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh
By – Bikram Grewal, Sumit Sen, Sarwandeep Singh, Nikhil Devasar and Garima Bhatia
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