Falcated Duck
Anas falcata Georgi, 1775 (0, 7)
Photo © By Francis C. Franklin - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=35774036
STATUS
Mongolia, eastern Siberia and north-east China. Monotypic.
OVERVIEW
It took seven years for the BOURC to accept the species into Category D. Then, it was not until October 2019 that the species was finally admitted to Category A of the British List.
BBRC RECORDS
1.0). 1986 Norfolk Welney WWT, 2CY+ male, 9th to 10th December; same, 27th December.
(J. B. Kemp, Twitching 1: 21-22; BOURC (1993), Ibis 135: 497; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 87: 567; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 112: 564; BOURC (2019), Ibis 162: 263).
1.1). 1987 Northamptonshire Pitsford Reservoir, 3CY+, male, 15th February to 5th April; same as Norfolk.
(Eds., Twitching 1: 75-76; Eds., British Birds 80: 255, plate 135; BOURC (1993), Ibis 135: 497; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 87: 567; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 112: 564; BOURC (2019), Ibis 162: 263).
1.2). 1987 Norfolk Welney WWT, 3CY+, male, 20th August to 8th October, photo; presumed returning individual.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 87: 567; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 112: 564).
1.3). 1987 Northamptonshire Thrapston Gravel-pit, 4CY+, male, 12th December, there or Ringstead Gravel-pit to 6th March 1988, photo; presumed returning individual.
(Eds., Twitching 1: 75-76; Eds., British Birds 80: 255, plate 135; BOURC (1993), Ibis 135: 497; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 87: 567; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 112: 564; BOURC (2019), Ibis 162: 263).
1.4). 1988 Cambridgeshire Buckden Gravel-pits, Huntingdonshire, 4CY+, male, 1st April; presumed same as 1987-88 Northamptonshire.
(W. J. Jordan, Cambridgeshire Bird Report 1988: 51; BOURC (1993), Ibis 135: 497; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 87: 567; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
1.5). 1988 Norfolk Cley Marshes, 4CY+, male, 7th to 15th May; same as 1987-88 Northamptonshire.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 87: 567; Taylor, Seago, Allard & Dorling, 1999; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
1.6). 1989 Norfolk Cley Marshes, 5CY+, male, 11th to 29th May, photo; same as 1987-88 Northamptonshire.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 87: 567; Taylor, Seago, Allard & Dorling, 1999; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
2). 1994 Essex Old Hall Marshes RSPB, 2CY+, male, 16th January, photo; same, 11th April, photo.
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 88: 555; Wood, 2007; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
3). 1995 Lincolnshire Kirkby-on-Bain GPs, 2CY+, male, 19th to 21st February, photo.
(Birding World 8 (2): 45, photo; M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 89: 529; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
4). 1999 Hertfordshire Wilstone Reservoir, Tring, 2CY+, male, 13th to 20th January.
(P. A. Fraser and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 100: 751; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
5). 2000 Orkney Shapinsay, 2CY+, male, found shot, 24th November, photo, now at National Museums of Scotland (NMSZ 2002.86).
(M. J. Rogers and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 94: 501; Forrester & Andrews et al., 2007; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
6.0). 2006 Devon Exe Estuary, 1CY, male, 18th November to 11th January 2007, photo.
(M. Langman, Birding World 19 (11): 456, plates 1 & 2; P. A. Fraser and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 100: 751, plate 363; Devon Bird Report 2006: photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 101: 575, corr.; British Birds 105: plates 14-18; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
6.1). 2008 Devon Countess Wear Sewage-works, 3CY, male, 30th January to 4th May, photo; presumed returning individual.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 102: 598; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
7). 2008 Anglesey Llyn Traffwll, 2CY, male, 17th to 29th May.
(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 102: 598; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 591).
P). 2023 Lincolnshire Covenham Reservoir, male, 26th January, photo.
(birding information services).
