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Cotton pygmy-goose Mandarin 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.
The Crested is a breed of domestic duck, characterised by a crest or tuft of feathers on the head. Ducks of this kind were probably brought from the East Indies to Europe by Dutch ships. [ 3 ] : 413 The duck may be of any colour; the crest results from the action of an autosomal dominant gene and varies widely in size, from imperceptibly small ...
Order: Anseriformes Family: Anseranatidae The family contains a single species, the magpie goose.It was an early and distinctive offshoot of the anseriform family tree, diverging after the screamers and before all other ducks, geese and swans, sometime in the late Cretaceous.
This is a list of the breeds of domestic duck which have official recognition at national or international level. [1]Most breeds of duck derive from the wild mallard, Anas platyrhyncos, while a small minority are descendants of the Muscovy duck, Cairina moschata.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Hong Kong.The avifauna of Hong Kong include a total of 599 species, of which 12 have been introduced by humans.. This list's taxonomic treatment (designation and sequence of orders, families and species) and nomenclature (common and scientific names) follow the Hong Kong Bird List published by Hong Kong Bird Watching Society.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 25 November 2024. Species of bird Mandarin duck Temporal range: Pleistocene – Present, 0.8 – 0 Mya Pre๊ ๊ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓ Male and female mandarin ducks at Martin Mere, UK Conservation status Least Concern (IUCN 3.1) Scientific classification Domain: Eukaryota Kingdom: Animalia Phylum ...
The hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) is a species of fish-eating duck in the subfamily Anatinae. It is the only extant species in the genus Lophodytes. The genus name derives from the Greek language: lophos meaning 'crest', and dutes meaning 'diver'. The bird is striking in appearance; both sexes have crests that they can raise or lower ...
Chinese species include the greater, little, round-eared, Hutton's, and dusky tube-nosed bat. The dusky tube-nosed bat is endemic to Heilongjiang and Jilin in northeastern China. The greater tube-nosed bat of Beijing feeds on aerial beetles. [241] The painted bat and Hardwicke's woolly bat, also vesper bats, live in the forests of southern China.