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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 mallards, 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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    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 (Anas poecilorhyncha) in Hyderabad, India Philippine duck (Anas luzonica) Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) (female) Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) with...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Cairina moschata) and the domestic duck (derived from the mallard Anas platyrhynchos). American Pekins and other domestic ducks are most commonly used...
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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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    Indian Runners or Runner ducks are a breed of Anas platyrhynchos domesticus, the domestic duck. They stand erect like penguins and, rather than waddling...
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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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  • 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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    present differences between sexes while others, like the mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), have distinctly different syrinxes between males and females. This...
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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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  • 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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  • condor Vultur gryphus Cathartidae 6,500 metres (21,300 feet) Mallard Anas platyrhynchos Anatidae 6,400 metres (21,000 feet) This height was recorded over...
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    United Kingdom Use ornament showing Traits Colour about twenty recognised colours Classification APA : 18  EE no PCGB Duck Anas platyrhynchos domesticus...
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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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    Ocean) – anatine or tadornine* "Anas" albae (Late Miocene of Polgárdi, Hungary) – mergine? Formerly in Mergus "Anas" eppelsheimensis (Early Pliocene...
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  • a small sea duck Anas aucklandica, the Auckland teal Anas melleri, Meller's duck Anas platyrhynchos, the mallard, a wild duck Anas (أنس) is an Arabic...
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    A. (2014). "Fertility and hatchability of eggs on mallard ducks (Anas platyrhynchos L.) of different plumage pattern under different feeding regimes"...
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    Male in flight profile A male wood duck/mallard hybrid (A. sponsa x Anas platyrhynchos) BirdLife International (2016). "Aix sponsa". IUCN Red List of Threatened...
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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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    duck (Aythya fuligula), red-crested pochard (Netta rufina), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), greylag goose (Anser anser), pygmy cormorant (Microcarbo pygmeus)...
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