LOCAL NAMES

• ගාගනි සේරුවා, ගාගනි පත් තුඩුවා, Gagani Seruwa, Sarcelle d’été, गर्गनेय, गर्गने, Гаргани, Marzaiola, جارجاني, گارگنی, গিরিয়া হাঁস, জিরিয়া হাঁস, Sarcelle d’été, કાર્ડીયો, ચેત્વા, ನೀಲಪಕ್ಷ, വരി എരണ്ട, भुवई, श्वेताँखीभौं, साचिहंस, நீலச்சிறகி
• Afrikaans Somereend
• Albanian Marsatorja
• Arabic حذف صيفي
• Armenian Ճքճքան մրտիմն
• Asturian Zarceta ronquiella
• Azerbaijani Cırıldayan cürə
• Basque Udako zertzeta
• Bulgarian Лятно бърне
• Catalan Xarrasclet
• Chinese 白眉鴨
• Chinese (SIM) 白眉鸭
• Croatian patka pupčanica
• Czech čírka modrá
• Danish Atlingand
• Dutch Zomertaling
• English Garganey
• English (United States) Garganey
• Faroese Teymont
• Finnish heinätavi
• French Sarcelle d’été
• French (French Guiana) Sarcelle d’été
• Galician Cerceta do estío
• German Knäkente
• Greek Σαρσέλα
• Hebrew קרקיר
• Hungarian Böjti réce
• Icelandic Taumönd
• Indonesian Itik jurai
• Italian Marzaiola
• Japanese シマアジ
• Korean 발구지
• Latvian Prīkšķe
• Lithuanian Dryžagalvė kryklė
• Malayalam വരി എരണ്ട
• Marathi भुवई बदक
• Mongolian Цагаан хөмсөгт нугас
• Norwegian knekkand
• Persian خوتکای ابروسفید
• Polish cyranka
• Portuguese (Portugal) Marreco
• Romanian Rață cârâitoare
• Russian Чирок-трескунок
• Serbian Grogotovac
• Slovak kačica chrapačka
• Slovenian Reglja
• Spanish Cerceta Carretona
• Spanish (Mexico) Cerceta Cejas Blancas
• Spanish (Puerto Rico) Pato Carretón
• Spanish (Spain) Cerceta carretona
• Swedish årta
• Thai เป็ดลาย
• Turkish Çıkrıkçın
• Ukrainian Чирянка велика

DESCRIPTION

Spatula querquedula, The garganey is a small dabbling duck. Small and often rather unobtrusive duck of wetlands with reedy and other fringing vegetation. Breeds widely across Eurasia; winters in Africa and southern Asia. Migrants can be on more open water, even tidal mudflats. Handsome male distinctive, with big white eyebrow on dark brown head, pale gray flanks; pale gray forewing striking in flight. Female very similar to female Green-winged Teal but head pattern more contrasting, with paler eyebrow, darker eyestripe, and unstreaked whitish throat. Associates readily with other ducks; feeds mainly by dabbling. Their sounds calls are like . Locally named Gagani Seruwa.