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The long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis) or coween, [2] formerly known as the oldsquaw, is a medium-sized sea duck that breeds in the tundra and taiga regions of the arctic and winters along the northern coastlines of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
Genus Clangula - long-tailed duck; Genus Coscoroba - coscoroba swan (Anserinae or same subfamily as Cereopsis?) Genus Cyanochen - blue-winged goose (Tadorninae or more distant clade?) Genus Cygnus - true swans; Genus Dendrocygna - whistling ducks; Genus Heteronetta - black-headed duck; Genus Histrionicus - harlequin duck (includes Ocyplonessa)
The American Ornithologists' Union changed the official American English name of the long-tailed duck, (Clangula hyemalis) from oldsquaw to the long-standing British name, because of wildlife biologists' concerns about cooperation with Native Americans involved in conservation efforts, as well as for standardization. [40]
Black-bellied whistling duck: Dendrocygna autumnalis (Linnaeus, 1758) 2 Spotted whistling duck: Dendrocygna guttata Schlegel, 1866: 3 West Indian whistling duck: Dendrocygna arborea (Linnaeus, 1758) 4 Fulvous whistling duck: Dendrocygna bicolor (Vieillot, 1816) 5 Plumed whistling duck: Dendrocygna eytoni (Eyton, 1838) 6 Wandering whistling duck
Clangula, long-tailed duck (1 species) Bucephala, goldeneyes (3 species) Mergellus, smew; Lophodytes, hooded merganser; Mergus, mergansers (4 living species, 1 extinct). Tribe: Oxyurini, stiff-tail ducks (a small group of 3–4 genera, 2–3 of them monotypic, with 7–8 living species) Oxyura, stiff-tailed ducks (5 living species)
The specific epithet is from allē, the Lapp word for the long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis). [12] The species was formerly placed in the genus Plautus , [ 11 ] but in 1973 this name was suppressed by the commission of the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 15 ] and now the little auk is the only species placed in ...
The western meadowlark is the state bird of North Dakota. This list of birds of North Dakota includes species documented in the U.S. state of North Dakota. The list is derived from Checklist of North Dakota Birds produced in April 2021 by the North Dakota Game and Fish Department (NDGFD). The basic NDGFD list contains 420 confirmed and extant species, two extinct species. Three additional ...
The taxonomic treatment [3] (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) used in the accompanying bird lists adheres to the conventions of the AOS's (2019) Check-list of North American Birds, the recognized scientific authority on the taxonomy and nomenclature of North America birds.