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Eurasian Wigeon

Anas penelope ORDER: ANSERIFORMES FAMILY: ANATIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Common and widespread in the Old World, the Eurasian Wigeon is a sporadic visitor to North America. Regular in very small numbers along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, single individuals have turned up in nearly all states and provinces.

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Calls

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  • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

High, scratchy, whistling "whe-o." Female quacks.

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