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The Anatidae are the biological family of water birds that includes ducks, geese, and swans. The family has a cosmopolitan distribution , occurring on all the world's continents except Antarctica. These birds are adapted for swimming , floating on the water surface, and, in some cases, diving in at least shallow water.
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The related and extant families, Anhimidae and Anatidae (ducks, geese and swans), contain all the other taxa. [1] A cladistic study of the morphology of waterfowl found that the magpie goose was an early and distinctive offshoot, diverging after screamers and before all other ducks, geese and swans. [2]
The species name is the Latin word ferina, meaning "wild game" (derived from ferus, meaning "wild"). [10] The common name "pochard" was first applied to the duck in the mid-1500s; its origin and etymology is unknown. [11] It is also sometimes known as European pochard, Eurasian pochard, or (particularly in the UK) simply pochard. [12]
The emperor goose (Anser canagicus), also known as the beach goose [6] or the painted goose, [7] is a waterfowl species in the family Anatidae, which contains the ducks, geese, and swans. In summer, the emperor goose is found in remote coastal areas near the Bering Sea in arctic and sub-arctic Alaska and the Russian Far East , where it breeds ...
The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 174 Anatidae species distributed among 53 genera, 32 of which have only one species. Eight species on the list are extinct; they are marked (E). [1] This list is presented according to the IOC taxonomic sequence and can also be sorted alphabetically by common name and binomial.
The Anatinae are a subfamily of the family Anatidae (swans, geese and ducks). Its surviving members are the dabbling ducks, which feed mainly at the surface rather than by diving. The other members of the Anatinae are the extinct moa-nalo, a young but highly apomorphic lineage derived from the dabbling ducks.
The steamer ducks are a genus (Tachyeres) of ducks in the family Anatidae.All of the four species occur at the southern cone of South America in Chile and Argentina, and all except the flying steamer duck are flightless; even this one species capable of flight rarely takes to the air.