5 Beautiful Species Of Duck To Spot In India

Here is the list of strongly migratory dabbling ducks found in India during the winter months, The migratory duck like waterfowl found in India also include Bar Headed Goose, Cotton Pygmy Goose and Greylag goose.

Pink headed duck is the Critically Endangered diving duck found only in Gangetic plains of India and riverine swamps of Myanmar, Bangladesh.

* Lesser Whistling Duck

Lesser Whistling Duck breeds in the Indian subcontinent and distributed widely across lowland wetlands. They feed mainly on water plants and found in urban wetlands of Santragachi in Kolkata.

* Ruddy Shelduck

Ruddy Shelduck is known as Brahminy duck in India, one of the most beautiful and distinctive waterfowl. Brahminy duck is a large waterfowl having orange brown body plumage.

* Northern Shoveler

Northern Shoveler spends winter in the Indian subcontinent and breeds in Europe and Asia. This species a bird of open wetlands and a strongly migratory bird found in India.

* Indian Spot Billed Duck

Indian Spot Billed Duck is a non migratory large dabbling duck, found in freshwater wetlands of the Indian subcontinent. The spot billed duck is the most common species of waterfowl of India.

* Northern Pintail

Northern Pintail is a migratory duck wintering in India. Pintail preferred habitats of shallow and freshwater ponds, lakes and backwaters of dams.