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Articles

Vol. 54 No. 1 (2023)

EURASIAN WIGEON BREED IN THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS, ALASKA

  • JACK J. WITHROW
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.21199/WB54.1.5
Submitted
September 11, 2025
Published
January 1, 2023

Abstract

 In June 2022, while collecting in the Aleutian Islands, Alaska, for the University of Alaska Museum, I observed at least three broods of Eurasian Wigeon (Mareca penelope) on Amchitka Island (51.39° N, 179.26° E) and two broods on Adak Island (51.92° N, 176.64° W). So far as I have been able to determine the specimens collected from them represent the first actual documentation of nesting by the species in North America.

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