Ducks, Geese & Swans in Qatar
Our list for Qatar has 12 ducks, geese & swans recorded regularly there: 3 winter visitors and 9 passage migrants
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Qatar in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 12, most common first
MallardAnas platyrhynchosWinter visitorCommon50–65 cmRegularly Sep–Jun
PochardAythya ferinaWinter visitorUncommon42–49 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorUncommon34–38 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
GarganeySpatula querquedulaPassage migrantUncommon37–41 cmRegularly Aug–Dec
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataPassage migrantUncommon44–51 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
GadwallMareca streperaPassage migrantUncommon46–56 cmRegularly Dec–Jan
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopePassage migrantUncommon42–51 cmRegularly Dec
Northern PintailAnas acutaPassage migrantUncommon59–76 cmRegularly Jan–Feb
Tufted DuckAythya fuligulaPassage migrantUncommon40–47 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
Greylag GooseAnser anserPassage migrantUncommon75–90 cmRegularly Nov–Mar
Muscovy DuckCairina moschataPassage migrantUncommon66–84 cmRegularly Nov–Feb
Egyptian GooseAlopochen aegyptiacaPassage migrantUncommon63–73 cmRegularly Nov–Apr
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