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The greater roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico. This list of birds of New Mexico are the species documented in the U.S. state of New Mexico and accepted by the New Mexico Bird Records Committee (NMBRC). As of August 2022, 552 species were included in the official list. Of them, 176 are on the review list (see below), five species have been introduced to North America, and three have ...
It covers 3,500 acres (1,400 ha) with many ponds that harbor waterfowl, shorebirds and species from the nearby desert. [3] La Joya contains 600 acres (240 ha) of man-made ponds. [ 2 ] As of 2008 La Joya was open for hunting between September and mid-January.
Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans. Most modern species in the ...
A black-bellied whistling duck in the water. The black-bellied whistling duck is a mid-sized waterfowl species. Length ranges from 47 to 56 cm (19 to 22 in), body mass from 652 to 1,020 g (1.437 to 2.249 lb), and wingspan ranges from 76 to 94 cm (30 to 37 in).
The avian family Anatidae, commonly called waterfowl, comprise the ducks, geese, and swans. 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]
The species also occurs widely, but in limited numbers, in Colorado in all seasons and there are photographs of birds referable to this taxon from Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska, and Montana. [ 3 ] It is a bird of most wetlands , including ponds and rivers, and usually feeds by dabbling for plant food or grazing.
This species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae as Anas acuta. [2] The scientific name comes from two Latin words: anas, meaning "duck", and acuta, which comes from the verb acuere, "to sharpen"; the species term like the English name, refers to the pointed tail of the male in breeding plumage. [3]
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.