English: Garganey
Russian: Чирок-трескунок
German: Knakente
French: Sarcelle d’ete
Mongolian: Цагаанхөмсөгт нугас
Japanese: シマアジ (Shimaaji)

Body length: 37 - 41 cm
Wing span: 59 - 67 cm

Passage migrant
Breeding season: May-September

Egg number: 8-11
Egg color: Creamy-buff with greenish tints.
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status:  Least concern

Habitat:  Breeds on shallow, eutrophic fresh waters in lowland and steppe habitats. Nests in tussock on lakeside meadow. Summer visitor (mainly April-September); strictly migratory, wintering in Africa. Never seen in large flocks in northern part of range (though often in southern).

Identification: Slightly larger than Teal, with longer and straighter bill, and o average slightly longer tail. In flight, wings are slightly paler (especially outer wing). Only rarely upends, prefers to skim surface (dabble) or dip head (Teal frequently upends).

• Adult ♂ breeding: Head purple-brown with white crescent over eye to side of nape; breast dark brown, flanks pale grey; scapulars black and white, pointed. In flight, pale, dull blue-grey upper forewing and sharp contrast between white belly and dark breast.
• Adult ♀: Resembles Teal, but told by slightly larger size; longer, straighter all-grey bill (no orange at the base); hint of darker stripe across cheeks and or pale oral patch at base of bill, making head look more striped; lack of pale patch at base o tail-side. Further, ♀ Garganeys often have quite clean, pale creamy chin/throat compared with ♀ type Teals. In flight, grey-brown forewing much as on Teal, but slightly paler outer wing, and lacks broad white midwing-bar (has narrow only), and has broad white trailing edge to secondaries in ♀, but retains adult ♂ wing with pale blue-grey forewing.
• Juvenile: Like adult ♀, but belly is less pale, and white training edge to secondaries is narrower.

Food:  Grazes in wet meadows, and marshy areas with short vegetation.