Gadwall Call Instructions

Gadwall, or gray ducks as they are often called, are found in every US flyway and often use the same type habitat of habitat as mallards. Learning to use a gadwall call can be useful in drawing these birds into your spread, and a gadwall call is also a great way to add variety to your calling anytime you are targeting puddle ducks. 

The gadwall call is very easy to use. Gadwall quacks are short and low pitched. A good word reference to say into the call is “Dut”. Gadwall make an erratic series of quacks with varying pauses between each note, not usually strung together in a cadence like mallards. A common series of gadwall quacks might sound like this:

Dut    Dut-Dut    Dut    Dut-Dut-Dut    Dut-Dut