The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution, occurring on all...
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Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among...
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The avian family Anatidae, commonly called waterfowl, comprise the ducks, geese, and swans. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes...
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Swans are birds of the genus Cygnus within the family Anatidae. The swans' closest relatives include the geese and ducks. Swans are grouped with the closely...
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(pl.: geese) is a bird of any of several waterfowl species in the family Anatidae. This group comprises the genera Anser (grey geese and white geese) and...
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(Mareca strepera) is a common and widespread dabbling duck in the family Anatidae. The gadwall was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758...
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Duck is the common name for numerous species of waterfowl in the family Anatidae. Ducks are generally smaller and shorter-necked than swans and geese, which...
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Chloephaga is a genus of sheldgeese in the family Anatidae. Other sheldgeese are found in the genera Alopochen and Neochen. The genus Chloephaga was introduced...
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subfamily, Dendrocygninae, of the duck, goose and swan family of birds, Anatidae. In other taxonomic schemes, they are considered a separate family, Dendrocygnidae...
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The Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca) is an African member of the Anatidae family including ducks, geese, and swans. Because of their popularity chiefly...
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Diving duck (section Family Anatidae)
which feed by diving beneath the surface of the water. They are part of Anatidae, the diverse and very large family that includes ducks, geese, and swans...
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coscoroba) is a species of waterfowl in the subfamily Anserinae of the family Anatidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay, and...
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ISBN 978-0-735-81189-8. Chadd, Rachel Warren; Taylor, Marianne (2016). "Anatidae: Duck". Birds: Myth, Lore and Legend. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 12–15...
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atricapilla) is a South American duck in subfamily Oxyurinae of family Anatidae. It is found in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay...
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Geese are waterfowl of the family Anatidae. Goose may also refer to: One of several wild bird species in the family Anatidae: Magpie goose, bird in the closely...
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mitochondrial DNA sequences from ducks, geese and swans in the family Anatidae. The results confirmed some of the conclusions of earlier smaller studies...
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Spur-winged goose Plectropterus Anatidae 143 km/h 89 mph High-speed wings Red-breasted merganser Mergus serrator Anatidae 130 km/h 81 mph High–aspect ratio...
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Tadorninae (section Family Anatidae)
The Tadorninae is the shelduck-sheldgoose subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as...
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tb03753.x Watanabe, J., & Matsuoka, H. (2015). Flightless diving duck (Aves, Anatidae) from the Pleistocene of Shiriya, northeast Japan. Journal of Vertebrate...
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this taxon. The related and extant families, Anhimidae (screamers) and Anatidae (ducks, geese, and swans), contain all the other taxa. The magpie goose...
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mitochondrial DNA sequences from ducks, geese and swans in the family Anatidae found that the chestnut teal is a sister species to the Sunda teal (Anas...
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The Anserinae are a subfamily in the waterfowl family Anatidae. It includes the swans and the true geese. Under alternative systematical concepts (see...
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indicus Anatidae 8,800 metres (29,000 feet) They also fly over the peaks of the Himalayas on their migratory path. Whooper swan Cygnus cygnus Anatidae 8,200...
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Neochen is a genus of birds in the family Anatidae. The genus contains a single living species: †Neochen barbadiana †Neochen debilis †Neochen pugil Wikimedia...
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Africa. This duck belongs to the subfamily Anatinae of the waterfowl family Anatidae. Males (drakes) have green heads, while the females (hens) have mainly...
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(Chenonetta jubata) Finsch's duck (Chenonetta finschi) — extinct, 1870 "Anatidae". aviansystematics.org. The Trust for Avian Systematics. Retrieved 2023-08-05...
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Mute swan (category Anatidae)
(Cygnus olor) is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae. It is native to much of Eurasia, and (as a rare winter visitor) the far...
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Kingdom: Animalia Phylum: Chordata Class: Aves Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Genus: Cairina Fleming, 1822 Species: C. moschata Binomial name Cairina...
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quails, and turkeys). The term also includes waterfowls of the family Anatidae (ducks and geese) but does not include wild birds hunted for food known...
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Institut. pp. 308, 351. Eyton, Thomas Campbell (1838). A Monograph on the Anatidae, or Duck Tribe. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green, & Longman. p. 52....
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