Species: Anas penelope
Eurasian Wigeon
Species
Encyclopedia of Puget Sound
Classification
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Craniata
Class
Aves
Order
Anseriformes
Family
Anatidae
Genus
Anas
NatureServe
Classification
Other Global Common Names
Pato Silbón - canard siffleur
Informal Taxonomy
Animals, Vertebrates - Birds - Waterfowl
Formal Taxonomy
Animalia - Craniata - Aves - Anseriformes - Anatidae - Anas - (AOU 1983). See Livezey (1991) for a phylogenetic analysis and classification (supergenera, subgenera, infragenera, etc.) of dabbling ducks based on comparative morphology.
Ecology and Life History
Migration
false - false - true - Generally arrives on winter range in western contiguous U.S. in October, departs by April (Cogswell 1977). Irregular in migration in interior North America.
Non-migrant
false
Locally Migrant
false
Food Comments
Eats mainly pondweeds, eelgrass, other aquatic plants, and grass. Forages in shallow water and in fields and meadows (Terres 1980, Cogswell 1977).
Reproduction Comments
Lays clutch of usually 7-10 eggs, May-June. Incubation, by female, lasts 24-25 days. Young first fly at 40-45 days. Male may reunite with female when she takes ducklings to water.
Ecology Comments
Usually among American wigeons wintering flocks in West (Cogswell 1977).
Length
51
Weight
819
Conservation Status
NatureServe Global Status Rank
G5
Global Status Last Reviewed
1996-11-21
Global Status Last Changed
1996-11-21
Other Status
LC - Least concern
Distribution
Conservation Status Map
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Global Range
H - >2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles) - H - BREEDING: in Eurasia from Iceland, British Isles, and Scandinavia east to eastern Siberia and Kamchatka, south to northern Europe, central Russia, and Transcaucasia. NON-BREEDING: in Old World from Iceland, British Isles, northern Europe, southern Russia, and Japan south to the eastern Atlantic islands, Africa, Arabia, India, Malay Peninsula, southern China, Formosa, and the Philippines. In North America on the Pacific coast from southeastern Alaska to northern Baja California and on the Atlantic-Gulf coast from Labrador and Newfoundland south to Florida and west to southern Texas. Casual in Ceylon, Borneo, Celebes, Greenland, and Hawaii (AOU 1983).
Global Range Code
H
Global Range Description
>2,500,000 square km (greater than 1,000,000 square miles)