English: Common Goldeneye, Whistler
Russian:  Обыкновенный гоголь
German: Schellente
French: Garrot a oeil d’or
Mongolian: Алаг шунгаач
Japanese:  ホウジロガモ (Hojiro-gamo)

Body Length: 40-48 cm
Wing span: 62-77 cm

Passage migrant/ summer visitor
Breeding season:  May-September

Egg number: 6-11
Egg colour: Bluish green.
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status:  Least Concern

Food:  Invertebrates, molluscs, crustaceans, insect larvae, fishes and plants.

Habitat: On migration, it forms large flocks consisting of up to 1,000 individuals and forages n the following breeding habitats: large fresh water bodies, brackish and saline lakes, deltas of rivers, large pool and ponds, channels, wheat fields and oases for foraging and resting from taiga forest to the Gobi desert, and lake shores, river banks, islands, and sand bars.