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English: A tufted duck or tufted pochard (Aythya fuligula) flaps its wings after a good bath and swim in Nagadaha lake, Lalitpur, Nepal in summer heat. Tiếng Việt: Một con vịt búi lông ( Aythya fuligula ) vỗ cánh ở Hồ Nagadaha, Lalitpur, Nepal.
The northern shoveler (/ ˈ ʃ ʌ v əl ər /; Spatula clypeata), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, [2] is a common and widespread duck.It breeds in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America, [3] wintering in southern Europe, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.
The white-faced whistling duck (Dendrocygna viduata) is a whistling duck that breeds in sub-Saharan Africa and much of South America. This species is gregarious, and at favoured sites, the flocks of a thousand or more birds arriving at dawn are an impressive sight. As the name implies, these are noisy birds with a clear three-note whistling call.
The West Indian whistling duck is the largest and darkest of the whistling ducks with a length of 48 to 58 cm (19 to 23 in). The female weighs from 800 to 1,320 g (1.76 to 2.91 lb) and the male weighs from 760 to 1,240 g (1.68 to 2.73 lb); this species is about the size of a mallard. [9] It has a long black bill, long head and longish legs.
This is one of the largest living species of duck next only to the steamer ducks which are heavier. The Muscovy duck also attains sizes that nearly rival the white-winged duck, but may average a bit smaller in a wild state. Length is 66–81 cm (26–32 in) and wingspan is 116–153 cm (46–60 in). [5]
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Whistling duck taxonomy, including that of the entire order Anseriformes, is complicated and disputed. [4] Under a traditional classification proposed by ornithologist Jean Théodore Delacour based on morphological and behavioral traits, [ 5 ] [ 6 ] whistling ducks belong to the tribe Dendrocygnini under the family Anatidae and subfamily ...
The paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata), also known as the paradise duck, or pūtangitangi in Māori, is a species of shelduck, a group of goose-like ducks, which is endemic to New Zealand. Johann Friedrich Gmelin placed it in the genus Anas with the ducks, geese, and swans .