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Gadwall

Mareca strepera

371,348Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
123Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan38,129
Feb29,205
Mar37,444
Apr49,110
May44,940
Jun21,622
Jul16,001
Aug25,216
Sep28,942
Oct28,439
Nov25,415
Dec25,547

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England30,405
2Norfolk England18,094
3Suffolk England17,811
4Rutland England11,673
5Kent England11,556
6Lincolnshire England10,103
7Nottinghamshire England7,881
8East Riding of Yorkshire England7,673
9Essex England7,606
10Oxfordshire England6,651
11Leeds England6,635
12Surrey England6,544
13Somerset England6,315
14Gloucestershire England5,296
15Dorset England5,280
356,873 England7,753 Scotland5,232 Wales1,449 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
371,348
Peak month
April
Counties with records
123
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Mareca strepera
Group
Birds
NBN Atlas records since 2000
146,597
Conservation designations
Birds Directive, Convention on Migratory Species, Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, Birds of Conservation Concern, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Chordata
Class
Aves
Order
Anseriformes
Family
Anatidae
Genus
Mareca
Name with authority
Mareca strepera (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q28106966 · GBIF 9362027