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On 26 November 2024, Christophe Mason-Parker visited Intendance wetlands and photographed four unidentified ducks, forwarding the image to SBRC. Anthony Bentley, Island Manager of Aride Island Nature Reserve, visited the site on 9 December, observed the same ducks and submitted an identification to SBRC as two male and two female Gadwall. On 10 December, Adrian Skerrett visited the site and photographed the same ducks. Numbers increased to nine by 3 January 2025,
Meanwhile, Dr Girish Menon reported two female and one male Gadwall at Coetivy on 23 December and Anthony Bentley reported a female At Aride Island the same day. Adrian Skerrett reported a male in eclipse at Anse a la Mouche on 4 January 2025, Gadwall breeds across northern temperate latitudes, descending to lower latitudes in winter. Southern breeders are mostly sedentary, but birds from easternmost part of range winter south to the Indian Subcontinent and west to Caspian and Black Seas, with smaller numbers in Africa, regularly south to Ethiopia and more exceptionally Kenya (Leschack et al. 2020) These sightings from Intendance (Mahe), Coëtivy, Aride Island and Anse a la Mouche (Mahe) are the first, second, third and fourth records of Gadwall for Seychelles.
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