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Anas querquedula, Llobregat Delta, Barcelona 6🦆

Photo: Ferran Pestaña · CC BY-SA 2.0

SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Garganey

Spatula querquedula (Linnaeus, 1758)

De zomertaling (Spatula querquedula) is een vogel uit de familie van de eendachtigen (Anatidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1758 als Anas querquedula gepubliceerd door Carl Linnaeus. De naam 'querquedula' nam hij over van Francis Willughby en John Ray, die de naam gebruikten als geslachtsnaam voor de zomer- en wintertaling. Het woord stamt uit het Latijn, en is vermoedelijk een onomatopee. Het is een kleine eendensoort. De zomertaling heeft een groot verspreidingsgebied, van West-Europa tot ver in Azië.

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Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2025.

Population trendDecreasing
Key measurements
Body mass
0.33 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
not recorded
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Everything we know about the Garganey

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Body mass
0.33 kg
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Tail length
0.06 m
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Wing length
0.19 m
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Beak length
0.04 m
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Tarsus length
0.03 m
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Trophic level
Omnivore
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Habitat
Wetland
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
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Volume l
0.3 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Garganey yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force, maximum lifespan.

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAnseriformes
  5. ›familyAnatidae
  6. ›genusSpatula
  7. ›speciesSpatula querquedula
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. superorderGalloanserae
  3. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  4. familyAnatidae
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  12. familyAnatidae
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årta (sv), Knäkente (de), シマアジ (ja), Spatula querquedula (nl), xarrasclet (ca), čírka modrá (cs) … and 27 more languages
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