Ducks, Geese & Swans in New Zealand
Our list for New Zealand has 10 ducks, geese & swans recorded regularly there: 6 residents, 2 winter visitors, 1 passage migrant and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in New Zealand in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 10, most common first
MallardAnas platyrhynchosResidentCommon50–65 cmRecorded all year
Black SwanCygnus atratusResidentCommon110–142 cmRecorded all year
Canada GooseBranta canadensisResidentCommon76–110 cmRecorded all year
Greylag GooseAnser anserResidentUncommon75–90 cmRecorded all year
Muscovy DuckCairina moschataResidentUncommon66–84 cmRecorded all year
Mute SwanCygnus olorResidentUncommon140–160 cmRecorded all year
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataWinter visitorRare44–51 cmRegularly Apr–Oct
Northern PintailAnas acutaScarceRare59–76 cmRegularly Oct
Swan GooseAnser cygnoidesWinter visitorRare81–94 cmRegularly May–Oct
Wood DuckAix sponsaPassage migrantRare47–54 cmRegularly May–Jan
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