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    Mallard (redirect from Anas platyrhynchos)
    The mallard (/ˈmælɑːrd, ˈmælərd/) or wild duck (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia...
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    Domestic ducks (mainly mallard, Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, with some Muscovy ducks, Cairina moschata domestica) are ducks that have been domesticated...
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    The Mariana mallard or Oustalet's duck (Anas oustaleti) is an extinct species of duck of the genus Anas that was endemic to the Mariana Islands. Its taxonomic...
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    The genus now contains 31 living species. The name Anas is the Latin for "duck". The genus Anas was introduced by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus...
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    has previously been considered an island subspecies of the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). However, all major authorities now consider this form to be a distinct...
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    abstract) Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anas diazi. Wikispecies has information related to Anas diazi. "Anas diazi. NatureServe Explorer 2.0". explorer...
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    appear in any duck breed or type deriving from the wild Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, with a frequency of some 0.0001%–0.001% of all eggs hatched.: 89 ...
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    Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata domestica) and the domestic duck (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus), derived from the wild mallard. American Pekins and other...
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  • international level. Most breeds of duck derive from the wild mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, while a small minority are descendants of the Muscovy duck, Cairina...
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    Indian Runners are a breed of Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, the domestic duck. They stand erect like penguins and, rather than waddling, they run. The...
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  • Williams, Murray (2010). "An introduction most determined: Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) to New Zealand". Notornis. 57 (4): 178–195. Lyons, Kate (7 September...
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    American Pekin (redirect from Anas peking)
    Male: 4.5 kg (10 lb): 28  Female: 4.1 kg (9 lb): 28  Egg colour white or tinted Classification APA heavy EE yes PCGB no Domestic duck Anas platyrhynchos...
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    duck (Anas poecilorhyncha) in Hyderabad, India Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) (female) Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) with...
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    all the varieties of domestic ducks are descended from the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), apart from the Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata). The Call duck is...
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    for a critical period for imprinting in khaki campbell ducklings (Anas platyrhynchos domesticus). Animal Behaviour, vol. 22, no. 1. pp. 249–255. Also used...
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    with all the other ducks, geese and swans in the genus Anas and coined the binomial name Anas superciliosa. Gmelin based his description on the "Supercilious...
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    duck (Aythya fuligula), red-crested pochard (Netta rufina), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), greylag goose (Anser anser), pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmeus)...
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    eastern grey squirrel (Sciurus carolinensis) Leucistic female mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) Female house sparrow with incomplete leucism (Passer domesticus)...
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    Meller's duck (Anas melleri) is a species of the dabbling duck genus Anas. It is endemic to eastern Madagascar. Although a population was established on...
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    result of a genetic mutation fairly common in breeds derived from Anas platyrhynchos. The Cayuga has other characteristics compatible with derivation from...
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    present differences between sexes while others, like the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), have distinctly different syrinxes between males and females. This...
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    Muscovy duck (redirect from Anas moschata)
    beef—than the usual domestic ducks, which are descendants of the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). The meat is lean when compared to the fatty meat of mallard-derived...
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    (2001). "The first case of homosexual necrophilia in the mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)". Deinsea. 8: 243–247. ISSN 0923-9308. Archived from...
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    November 2001). "The First Case of Homosexual Necrophilia in the Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (Aves: Anatidae)" (PDF). Deinsea. 8 (2001): 243–247. Retrieved 6 October...
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  • bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds. In some birds such as Anas platyrhynchos the pessulus may be ossified. Yilmaz, Bestami; Yilmaz, Rahşan; Arican...
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    hybridize with multiple other species. For example, the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is known to interbreed with at least 40 different species. The ecological...
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    the hybrid cross of a male Muscovy duck and a female Pekin duck (Anas platyrhynchos domestica) called the Mulard duck. This hybrid is sterile and is,...
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    Mulards from the crossing of a Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) and a wild-type mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)...
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    Kreisinger, J.; Albrecht, T. (October 2008). "Nest protection in mallards Anas platyrhynchos: untangling the role of crypsis and parental behaviour". Functional...
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    Yury N. & McCracken, Kevin G. (2005): Phylogeography of the Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos): Hybridization, dispersal, and lineage sorting contribute to complex...
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