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Location: Ballona Freshwater Marsh, CA
GPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=5' MAP
Date: January 29, 2019
ID : B13K8050 [4896 x 3264]

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Gadwall Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Aurora, CO
GPS: 39.7N, -104.8W, elev=5,560' MAP
Date: December 22, 2021
ID : B13K1233 [4896 x 3264]

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Gadwall Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Palos Verdes (South Coast Botanic Gardens), CA
GPS: 33.8N, -118.3W, elev=356' MAP
Date: February 19, 2009
ID : 7C2V4827 [3888 x 2592]

Gadwall Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Rockport, TX
GPS: 28.0N, -97.0W, elev=0' MAP
Date: February 1, 2009
ID : 7C2V4335 [3888 x 2592]

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Gadwall Picture @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Ballona Freshwater Marsh, CA
GPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=5' MAP
Date: July 11, 2018
ID : B13K7929 [4896 x 3264]

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Gadwall Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Ballona Freshwater Marsh, CA
GPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=5' MAP
Date: July 11, 2018
ID : B13K7916 [4896 x 3264]

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Gadwall Photo @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Rockport, TX
GPS: 28.0N, -97.0W, elev=0' MAP
Date: February 1, 2009
ID : 7C2V4328 [3888 x 2592]

Gadwall Image @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Palos Verdes (South Coast Botanic Gardens), CA
GPS: 33.8N, -118.3W, elev=356' MAP
Date: February 19, 2009
ID : 7C2V4824 [3888 x 2592]

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Gadwall Image @ Kiwifoto.com
 
 
Location: Playa del Rey (Ballona Creek), CA
GPS: 34.0N, -118.4W, elev=0' MAP
Date: February 20, 2008
ID : 4165 [3888 x 2592]

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SPECIES INFO

The Gadwall is 46-56 cm long with a 78-90 cm wingspan. The breeding male is a beautifully patterned grey, with a black rear end and a brilliant white speculum, obvious in flight or at rest. In non-breeding (eclipse) plumage, the drake looks more like the female.

The females are light brown, with plumage much like a female Mallard. They can be distinguished from that species by the dark orange-edged bill, smaller size, and lack of an obvious speculum.

The Gadwall breeds in the northern areas of Europe and Asia and central North America. The range of this bird appears to be expanding into eastern North America. This dabbling duck is strongly migratory and winters further south than its breeding range.

In Great Britain the Gadwall is a scarce breeding bird and winter visitor, though it has increased in recent years. It is likely that its expansion was partly through introduction, mainly to England, and partly colonisation Great Britain, with continental birds staying to breed in Scotland.

The Gadwall is a bird of open wetlands, such as prairie or steppe lakes, wet grassland or marshes with dense fringing vegetation, and usually feeds by dabbling for plant food with head submerged. It nests on the ground, often some distance from water. It is not as gregarious as some dabbling ducks outside the breeding season and tends to form only small flocks. This is a fairly quiet species; the male has a hoarse whistling call, and the female has a Mallard-like quack. The young birds are fed insects at first; adults also eat some mollusks and insects during the nesting season. The Gadwall is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds (AEWA) applies.




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