Marbled Duck

How to identify

Field marks

1. Feathers mostly sandy-brown, with pale spots on the upperparts and underparts
2. Adult has dark patches around the eye and fluffy head feathers
3. Wings appear pale in flight, without a speculum
4. Bill blue-gray, legs and feet olive to dark yellow

Male, female and young

Female smaller on average than male, otherwise identical; juvenile similar, with more white patches.

Where and when it's recorded

Busiest months: April · Most records: Spain, Morocco, Israel

Marbled Duck has been recorded at 150 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 31 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Desembocadura del Guadalhorce – ÁreaSpain1,387 records
2. L'Albufera PNat – El Raco de l'OllaSpain1,270 records
3. Dehesa de AbajoSpain1,187 records

Countries and regions with the most records

SpainMoroccoIsraelUnited Arab EmiratesPortugalIndiaAzerbaijanTürkiye

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

About

The marbled duck or marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris) is a medium-sized species of duck from southern Europe, northern Africa, and western and central Asia. The scientific name, Marmaronetta angustirostris, comes from the Greek marmaros, marbled and netta, a duck, and Latin angustus, narrow or small and -rostris billed.

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