Key Facts
Family: Anatidae
Biometrics:
Length: 42 to 52 cm, Weight: 500 to 1073 g, Wingspan: 71 to 80 cm
Range:
These birds breed in Europe and northern Asia. These birds migrate to the southern regions of Asia and Africa in winter.
Habitat:
Found in shallow, freshwater marshes, lakes and lagoons surrounded by scattered trees or open forest during breeding season, but in winter move to coastal marshes, freshwater and brackish lagoons, estuaries, bays and other sheltered marine localities
Clicked at: Ujani backwater, a man-made wetland, which is a winter sojourn of many migratory birds
