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  2. Fuegian steamer duck - Wikipedia

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    The Fuegian steamer duck (Tachyeres pteneres) or the Magellanic flightless steamer duck, is a flightless duck native to South America. It belongs to the steamer duck genus Tachyeres . It inhabits the rocky coasts and coastal islands from southern Chile and Chiloé to Tierra del Fuego , switching to the adjacent sheltered bays and lakes further ...

  3. Steamer duck - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Falkland steamer duck - Wikipedia

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    The Falkland steamer duck (Tachyeres brachypterus) is a species of flightless duck found on the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean. The steamer ducks get their name from their unconventional swimming behaviour in which they flap their wings and feet on the water in a motion reminiscent of an old paddle steamer. [ 3 ]

  5. Flying steamer duck - Wikipedia

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    The three flightless species are monophyletic, with the flying steamer ducks splitting off phylogenetically. [3] It is the only steamer duck which can fly, and the only one to occur on inland fresh waters. [3] However, some individual male flying steamer ducks within the species are incapable of flight due to excessive size and wing loadings. [3]

  6. Chubut steamer duck - Wikipedia

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    The Chubut steamer duck or white-headed flightless steamer duck (Tachyeres leucocephalus) is a flightless duck endemic to Argentina. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is the most recently recognized species of steamer duck , being described only in 1981.

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  8. Flightless bird - Wikipedia

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    Flightless birds are birds that cannot fly. They have, through evolution, lost the ability to fly. [1] There are over 60 extant species, [2] including the well-known ratites (ostriches, emus, cassowaries, rheas, and kiwis) and penguins. The smallest flightless bird is the Inaccessible Island rail (length 12.5 cm, weight 34.7

  9. Glossary of bird terms - Wikipedia

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    About one half of bird species with fovea have a single one, but uniquely in birds, [221] some, such as terns, kingfishers and hummingbirds, have a second fovea, [222] called the temporal fovea, that assists in judging speed and distance and increases visual acuity. Birds that do not have a second fovea will sometimes bob their head to improve ...