Ducks, Geese & Swans in Tunisia
Our list for Tunisia has 11 ducks, geese & swans recorded regularly there: 6 winter visitors, 4 passage migrants and 1 scarce visitor
Most likely in October
GBIF · OctShare of all bird records in Tunisia in October, 2019–2024. Each month links to that month’s page.
All 11, most common first
Common ShelduckTadorna tadornaWinter visitorCommon58–67 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Northern ShovelerSpatula clypeataWinter visitorCommon44–51 cmRegularly Sep–Apr
MallardAnas platyrhynchosWinter visitorCommon50–65 cmRegularly Aug–Jun
Eurasian WigeonMareca penelopeWinter visitorCommon42–51 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
Eurasian TealAnas creccaWinter visitorCommon34–38 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Northern PintailAnas acutaWinter visitorCommon59–76 cmRegularly Oct–Mar
GadwallMareca streperaPassage migrantUncommon46–56 cmRegularly Dec–Feb
PochardAythya ferinaPassage migrantUncommon42–49 cmRegularly Oct–May
GarganeySpatula querquedulaPassage migrantUncommon37–41 cmRegularly Sep–Mar
Greylag GooseAnser anserPassage migrantUncommon75–90 cmRegularly Dec
Ruddy ShelduckTadorna ferrugineaScarceUncommon58–70 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