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Blue-winged Teal

Spatula discors

714Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
33Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan20
Feb15
Mar58
Apr129
May101
Jun71
Jul19
Aug70
Sep70
Oct111
Nov40
Dec10

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England150
2East Riding of Yorkshire England80
3Lincolnshire England59
4Isles of Scilly England38
5Devon England34
6Shetland Islands —27
7Glasgow City Scotland27
8Kent England21
9North Yorkshire England21
10Norfolk England18
11Highland Scotland17
12Rutland England16
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland12
14North Tyneside England12
15Cornwall England10
607 England101 Scotland6 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 33 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
714
Peak month
April
Counties with records
33
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Spatula discors
Group
Birds
Conservation designations
Convention on Migratory Species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Anseriformes
Family
Anatidae
Genus
Spatula
Name with authority
Spatula discors (Linnaeus, 1766)
Described
1766
Contributing datasets
2

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q28106778 · GBIF 9422220