Ducks, Geese & Swans in Jordan
Our list for Jordan has 11 ducks, geese & swans recorded regularly there: 3 winter visitors, 6 passage migrants and 2 scarce visitors
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Jordan in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 11, most common first
MallardAnas platyrhynchosWinter visitorCommon50–65 cmRegularly Aug–May
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Sep–May
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataWinter visitorCommon44–51 cmRegularly Sep–May
GarganeySpatula querquedulaPassage migrantUncommon37–41 cmRegularly Mar–Oct
Northern PintailAnas acutaPassage migrantUncommon59–76 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopePassage migrantUncommon42–51 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
GadwallMareca streperaPassage migrantUncommon46–56 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
PochardAythya ferinaPassage migrantUncommon42–49 cmRegularly Nov
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiacaPassage migrantUncommon63–73 cmRegularly Oct–Apr
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaScarceUncommon40–47 cm
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaScarceRare58–67 cm
Smallest to largest
Length, cmData: EOD – eBird Observation Dataset (Cornell Lab of Ornithology), accessed via GBIF.org, CC BY 4.0. Records from 2019–2024, aggregated and filtered by Birdfact. How these lists are made