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The African pygmy goose was described by the French polymath Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon in his Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux in 1785. [4] The bird was also illustrated in a hand-coloured plate engraved by François-Nicolas Martinet in the Planches Enluminées D'Histoire Naturelle which was produced under the supervision of Edme-Louis Daubenton to accompany Buffon's text. [5]
Pygmy geese are a group of very small "perching ducks" in the genus Nettapus which breed in the Old World tropics. ... the African pygmy goose (Nettapus auritus), ...
Nettapus auritus (Boddaert 1783) (African pygmy-goose) LC; Subgenus Eyton 1838. Nettapus pulchellus Gould 1842 (green pygmy-goose) LC; Nettapus coromandelianus (Gmelin 1789) (cotton pygmy-goose) LC. N. c. albipennis Gould 1842 (greater cotton pygmy goose) N. c. coromandelianus (Gmelin 1789) (lesser cotton pygmy goose) Tribe Biziurini Mathews 1946
Greater white-fronted goose, Anser albifrons (A) Taiga bean-goose, Anser fabalis (A) Knob-billed duck, Sarkidiornis melanotos; Hartlaub's duck, Pteronetta hartlaubii; Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus; Spur-winged goose, Plectropterus gambensis; African pygmy-goose, Nettapus auritus; Garganey, Spatula querquedula; Blue-billed teal, Spatula ...
African pitta; African pygmy goose; African pygmy kingfisher; African rail; African red-eyed bulbul; African red-rumped swallow; African river martin; African rock pipit;
Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus (A) Common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna (A) Spur-winged goose, Plectropterus gambensis; African pygmy-goose, Nettapus auritus; Garganey, Spatula querquedula; Northern shoveler, Spatula clypeata (A) Eurasian wigeon, Mareca penelope (A) Cape teal, Anas capensis (A) Northern pintail, Anas acuta; Green-winged teal ...
Blue-winged goose, Cyanochen cyanopterus (E) Knob-billed duck, Sarkidiornis melanotos; Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiaca; Ruddy shelduck, Tadorna ferruginea; Common shelduck, Tadorna tadorna (A) Spur-winged goose, Plectropterus gambensis; African pygmy-goose, Nettapus auritus; Garganey, Spatula querquedula; Blue-billed teal, Spatula hottentota
Egyptian goose, Alopochen aegyptiacus; Spur-winged goose, Plectropterus gambensis; African pygmy-goose, Nettapus auritus; Garganey, Spatula querquedula; Blue-billed teal, Spatula hottentota; Northern shoveler, Spatula clypeata; Eurasian wigeon, Mareca penelope (A) African black duck, Anas sparsa; Yellow-billed duck, Anas undulata