Wigeon - Hebridean Birds Sightings
Western Isles Birds - Wigeon - Though the male and female Wigeon are very different in appearance during the breeding season, both can be identified by their short, wide and slightly hooked bill, which is blue-grey in colour with a black tip.
They have short legs and a large round head shape.With large numbers of wintering birds at a few UK sites it is an Amber List species.
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Food | These lovely birds seen in The Western Isles are primarily aquatic grazers and feed primarily on pondweeds, eelgrass, other aquatic plants and grass found in shallow water and in fields and meadows.The wigeon also spend time grazing on land like a goose and also loiters around feeding flocks of diving ducks, snatching food from them when they bob back to the surface. |
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