Garganey

Table

Garganey – Accepted
1. 19 Mar 1975		Long Beach LA	1976-027	3	third spring reported at this location; see records not submitted
2. 23 Oct 1977	HY	SOL	1990-007	15	CAS 84149 (wing)
3. 10 Dec 1978	HY	KER	1990-068	15	CAS 84150 (wing)
4. 21 Mar–04 Apr 1979		vic. Lake Elsinore RIV	1979-019	5	ph., Roberson (1980)
5. 29 Apr 1982		Lower Klamath NWR SIS	1983-076	9
6. 10 Mar–28 Apr 1985		Modoc NWR MOD	1985-047	10	ph.
7. 19 Jun 1988		Woodland YOL	1988-131	17
8. 15 Oct–04 Nov 1989		Santa Maria Valley SBA/SLO	1989-117	15	ph., AB 44:161
9. 03 Dec 1989		Mendota Wildlife Area FRE	1990-056	15	ph. (wing)
10. 27 Mar–30 Apr 1990	SY	Bolinas MRN	1990-051	15	Figs. 16, 17, ph., AB 44:492
and 10 Oct–11 Nov 1990			1990-166	16	ph.
and 29 Dec 1990–05 Jan 1991			1991-013	16
11. 12–20 Sep 1990	AHY	San Joaquin Marsh ORA	1990-132	16
12. 30 Sep 1990		vic. Cantil KER	1990-197	16	ph.
13. 12 Oct–01 Nov 1990		Furnace Creek Ranch INY	1990-150	16	ph.
14. 02 Apr 1991		Watsonville SCZ	1992-061	17
15. 02–13 Oct 1991		Arroyo Laguna SLO	1991-230	17	ph.
16. 22 Aug–22 Sep 1992		Mtn. View Forebay SCL	1992-241	18	ph.
17. 17 Apr 1993		Tulare Lake KIN	1999-031	23
18. 16–23 Sep 1995		Eel R. Wildlife Area HUM	1996-004	21	ph.
19. 28 Sep–01 Oct 1995		vic. Cantil KER	1995-102	21
20. 29 Dec 1995–29 Feb 1996		Vandenberg Air Force Base SBA	1996-010	21	Fig. 15, ph., FN 50:222
21. 25 Apr–04 May 1998		Salinas MTY	1998-084	24	ph.
22. 16–22 Oct 1999		Rodman Slough LAK	1999-200	25
23. 26 or 27 Oct 2002		Mendota Wildlife Area FRE	2003-030	28	wing archived at USFWS in Laurel, MD
Garganey – Not accepted, identification not established
30 Jan–10 Feb 1987		Arcata HUM	1987-073	13
16 Jan 1993		San Rafael MRN	1993-054	19
23–24 May 2003		Baker SBE	2003-057	29	ph.
Garganey – Not submitted
15 Mar 1972		Long Beach LA		3	see table entry 1
04 Apr 1974		Long Beach LA		3	see table entry 1
07 Mar 1999		Cosumnes R. Preserve SAC			NAB 53:325
05 Apr 2003		Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area YOL			NAB 57:399

Figures

Figure 14. Seasonal occurrence of the Garganey in California, showing the preponderance of spring and fall records.

Figure 15. Bold white edges to the speculum, fore and aft, are indicative of the Garganey. Note also this bird’s bold supercilium, another useful mark. This individual wintered at Vandenberg Air Force Base in northern Santa Barbara County, where it was photographed on 2 January 1996 (1996-010; Brad K. Hines).

Figures 16, 17 (top, bottom). Two sketches of a first-spring male Garganey molting out of formative plumage (27 March 1990, top) and into first-alternate plumage (30 April 1990, bottom) during its stay at Bolinas, Marin County (1990-051; Keith Hansen).

Garganey

GARGANEY Anas querquedula Linnaeus, 1758

Accepted: 23 (88%)	Treated in Appendix H: no
Not accepted: 3	CBRC review: all records
Not submitted/reviewed: 4	Color image: none

This teal is widespread in the Old World, breeding from the British Isles east through central Russia to southeastern Siberia. Most birds winter in central and southern Africa and southern Asia, and they rarely reach Australia and Hawaii. The species is a rare but somewhat regular migrant through the western Aleutian Islands and a casual vagrant south along the Pacific slope to Baja California Sur (NAB 59:328, 330; 60:287, 288), with widely scattered records elsewhere across North America. That most such records come during spring (e.g., Spear et al. 1988) presumably reflects the distinctiveness of males in alternate plumage.

California’s first accepted Garganey—a male observed on 19 March 1975 in Long Beach, Los Angeles County—may have been seen on single days during three out of four springs in the early 1970s (see the records not submitted). A hunter furnished the state’s first specimen, of a first-fall male shot on 23 October 1977 at an unspecified location in Solano County. Figure 14 depicts the species’ seasonal occurrence in California. Four records pertain to birds that possibly or definitely wintered in the state (10 October–30 April). The other 19 records refer to spring and fall transients. All eight records of spring vagrants involve males in full breeding plumage—seven between 10 March and 4 May, plus a much later bird observed on 19 June 1988 at Woodland in Yolo County. None of the eleven records of fall vagrants (22 August–4 November) involves an alternate-plumaged male.

Jackson (1992) provided detailed information on the field identification of Garganeys in the species’ more confusing plumages.