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Gadwall
Mareca strepera
GADW · Anatidae · Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl
Wetland provisional · from avonet
3heard
The gadwall (Mareca strepera) is a common and widespread dabbling duck in the family Anatidae.
Wikipedia ↗Wingspan and trait data: Fox et al. (2026), CC BY 4.0; incorporating AVONET (Tobias et al. 2022) and BirdWingData (Shiomi et al. 2025)
3Detections
3Days heard
0.64Mean confidence
3 SepFirst heard
20 SepLast heard
11,056Stations worldwide
By hour of day
00061218
Counts reflect vocal activity and ambient noise, not abundance.
Recent days
3 Sep
20 Sep
Daily counts. Seasonal bars replace this once there is a year of records to draw them from.
Where heard
At home3 detections
On outings0 detections
Home and away are counted separately everywhere except here.
Where it lives
Breeding and resident range, from BirdWeather. Not where you have heard it — that is the map on the Outings page.
Leaflet · CARTO · range polygons from BirdWeather
Elsewhere
Recordings
Highest-confidence detections first. Confidence is a threshold, not a probability of being correct.
2026-09-03 23:40
9 s
0.76
2026-09-20 09:52
9 s
0.64
2026-09-17 17:55
9 s
0.51