This Tufted Duck was first spotted by our migration assistant Arcadie Fihey on the 9th of November on Crabby quarry and subsequently recorded daily during our census work, it was still present today.
A rare visitor for us but even rarer as it is wearing a tag on its bill, we think the first Alderney record of it’s kind, the bird was originally fitted with the identification numbered and lettered research tag at Dommartin-Dampierre in north eastern France in March this year.
Photo ( back of camera image)- the tagged Tufted Duck.