Wigeon (gobirding.eu)

Wigeon (Eurasian Wigeon) Anas penelope

An abundant winter visitor to the marshes of Norfolk and elsewhere. Over 22,000 were counted at a single site in east Norfolk in December 2005. Almost all of them depart in the spring and only a very small handful stay here for the summer.






male and female Wigeons, Buckenham (Norfolk, UK), 25th January 2004


male and female Wigeons, Caerlaverock (Dumfries & Galloway, UK), 29th December 2005

male Wigeon, Caerlaverock (Dumfries & Galloway, UK), 30th December 2003	male Wigeon, Caerlaverock (Dumfries & Galloway, UK), 29th December 2005


male Wigeons, Cley (Norfolk, UK), 3rd February 2007

female Wigeons, Cley (Norfolk, UK), 3rd February 2007

first-winter male Wigeon, Burnham Overy Marsh (Norfolk, UK), 31st January 2009


Wigeons, Cley (Norfolk, UK), 13th October 2007

male Wigeon, Brancaster Staithe (Norfolk, UK), 28th October 2008









Wigeons, Buckenham (Norfolk, UK), 1st January 2010

male Wigeon, Titchwell (Norfolk, UK), 15th March 2004

male Wigeon, Lochmaben (Dumfries & Galloway, UK), 29th December 2003	male Wigeon, Loch Ryan (Dumfries & Galloway, UK), 28th December 2005

female and male Wigeons, Cley (Norfolk, UK), 7th November 2003

female and male Wigeons, Salthouse (Norfolk, UK), 16th February 2008


male and female Wigeons, Titchwell (Norfolk, UK), 9th February 2008



Wigeons (with 2 Pintail, 4th & 5th from right), Sheringham (Norfolk, UK), 10th October 2009

female Wigeon, Titchwell (Norfolk, UK), 27th February 2003	male Wigeon, Titchwell (Norfolk, UK), 22nd March 2004

male Wigeon, Salthouse (Norfolk, UK), 3rd February 2007	female Wigeon, Cley (Norfolk, UK), 3rd February 2007

male Wigeon, Snettisham (Norfolk, UK), 31st March 2009	male Wigeon, Brancaster Staithe (Norfolk, UK), 15th February 2006

male Wigeons, Pentney (Norfolk, UK), 18th November 2006

Wigeon, Pentney (Norfolk, UK), 31st March 2009

female Wigeon, Swanton Morley (Norfolk, UK), 6th February 2010

Wigeons, Swanton Morley (Norfolk, UK), 20th September 2008

Wigeon, Brancaster Staithe (Norfolk, UK), 6th November 2007

Wigeon, Titchwell (Norfolk, UK), 23rd October 2009	Wigeon, Cley (Norfolk, UK), 10th September 2005

Aberrant Wigeons

The following three Wigeons showed white patches behind the eye.


female Wigeon with white patch behind eye, Buckenham (Norfolk, UK), 25th January 2004	female Wigeon with white patch behind eye, Caerlaverock (Dumfries & Galloway, UK), 29th December 2005

male Wigeon with white patch behind eye, Buckenham (Norfolk, UK), 25th January 2004

Occasionally birds appear that have not only a small patch of green behind the eye, as some of these do, but an long broad band of green running back from the eye. Two such birds appear on the Hybrid Ducks page where their identity is discussed.

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