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Hunting seasons for the yellow-billed duck are planned so as not to overlap with the breeding season, which is around July. However, the exact breeding season varies annually based on the climate. [7] Hunting is a major cause of death for the yellow-billed duck with past analysis showing over 25% of duck deaths were due to shooting. [3]
The Chilean pintail (Anas georgica spinicauda), also known as the golden peck duck or brown pintail, is a subspecies of the yellow-billed pintail (Anas georgica), a duck in the dabbling duck subfamily Anatinae. Its local names are pato jergón grande, pato maicero and pato piquidorado in Spanish, and marreca-parda or marreca-danada in Portuguese.
A. s. leucostigma Rüppell 1845 (pink-billed black duck) A. s. sparsa Eyton 1838 (South African black duck) Anas melleri Sclater 1865 (Meller's duck) EN C2a(ii) Anas undulata Dubois 1839 (yellow-billed duck) LC. A. u. ruppelli Blyth 1855 (northern yellow-billed duck) A. u. undulata Dubois 1839 (southern yellow-billed duck)
The duck has long been recognised as a distinct taxon, with its affinities previously considered to be with the teals. Robert Cushman Murphy was the first to demonstrate that it is a pintail, its closest relatives the yellow-billed pintails of South America (now split as the Chilean pintail A. g. spinicauda and the extinct Niceforo's pintail A. g. niceforoi), [5] though he retained it as a ...
Falkland steamer duck: Tachyeres brachypterus (Latham, 1790) 39 Chubut steamer duck: Tachyeres leucocephalus Humphrey & Thompson, 1981: 40 Torrent duck: Merganetta armata Gould, 1842: 41 Spur-winged goose: Plectropterus gambensis (Linnaeus, 1766) 42 Comb duck: Sarkidiornis sylvicola Ihering, HFA & Ihering, R, 1907: 43 Knob-billed duck ...
Examples of the colour(s) of the speculum in a number of ducks are: Common teal and green-winged teal: Iridescent green edged with buff. [1] Blue-winged teal: Iridescent green. [2] The species' common name comes from the sky-blue wing coverts. Crested duck and bronze-winged duck: Iridescent purple-bronze, edged white. [3]
The characters are a pair of identical anthropomorphic yellow-billed magpies who usually cause problems to others and for themselves with their bizarre antics. Heckle speaks in a tough New York style manner, while Jeckle has a more polite British accent.
Fulvous whistling-duck Yellow-billed duck. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans.These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, flattened bills, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to an oily coating.