Wigeon

Anseriformes

Place: Newport Wetlands, South Wales
Dates: 3 November 2016.






[Mareca penelope, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Eurasian wigeon]

The sound of the wigeon (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ruud van Beusekom)

Distribution and sightings of the wigeon across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).

3 thoughts on “Wigeon”

    1. I assume they must be – the info boards show NRW on them. I also noticed that I had the location wrong for the pictures – they were taken at the Newport Wetlands, not the Goldcliff Lagoons. I must have confused them since I was doing both on the same day.

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