BTO Bird ID - female dabbling ducks

Ducks are usually easy to identify, but the females can be more challenging. Many of our familiar dabbling ducks have subtly-plumaged brown females which, on first glance, appear similar. This workshop will help you tell them apart with confidence.

[@carolyngethings]

Very useful video. Thanks!

[@davidtosh7200]

Besides Mallards, Northern Shovelers and other dabbling ducks, geese, including Canada Goose, and Swans are also dabbling waterfowls.

[@heidiannemorris]

Love your video clips :) thank you !

[@stevehughes56]

Very informative clip, thank you

[@castello544]

Very nice workshop ;)

[@dronespace]

great video

[@tinashangloo4215]

very informative

[@violetleader2577]

read it as female dabbing ducks but that's ok too

[@indysandmanas]

Are all these ducks native to Great Britain?

[@lindadallman5202]

Yes they are

[@alexcaudwell9479]

I have never seen a gadwall or pintail

[@caseyvue6086]

alex caudwell Surreal!

[@alexcaudwell9479]

I saw a pair of SHOVELER duck doing courtship

[@sita8170]

mallard gadwall green winged teal northern pintail northern shoveler erusian wigeon garganey

[@lucasburney9616]

Mallards are so 😩

[@parkert2710]

Actually the speculum is the stripe next to the secondaries (the metallic patch etc) and providing such little species will misinform folks. Please put more detail. As a hunter I can identify these species tip to 40 meters in the air so do not even start me. #american all the way

[@birdshenanigans8506]

Males are ostentatious. Females are not ostentatious.