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Handbooks for the Identification of British Insects is a series of books produced by the Royal Entomological Society (RES). The aim of the Handbooks is to provide illustrated identification keys to the insects of Britain, together with concise morphological, biological and distributional information.
The northern shoveler (/ ˈ ʃ ʌ v əl ər /; Spatula clypeata), known simply in Britain as the shoveler, [2] is a common and widespread duck.It breeds in northern areas of Europe and across the Palearctic and across most of North America, [3] wintering in southern Europe, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, Central America, the Caribbean, and northern South America.
The species name is the Latin word ferina, meaning "wild game" (derived from ferus, meaning "wild"). [10] The common name "pochard" was first applied to the duck in the mid-1500s; its origin and etymology is unknown. [11] It is also sometimes known as European pochard, Eurasian pochard, or (particularly in the UK) simply pochard. [12]
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DNA studies have shown that it is a sister species with the falcated duck; the two are closely related to the three species of wigeons, and all of them have been assigned to the genus Mareca. [4] [5] There are two subspecies: [6] M. s. strepera, the common gadwall, described by Linnaeus, is the nominate subspecies.
The ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) is one duck of six species within the stiff-tailed ducks (Oxyura). They occupy heavily vegetated habitats in North and South America as well as the British Isles, France and Spain. Ruddy ducks were introduced to the United Kingdom in the 1940s where they have since established a growing population.
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The common goldeneye is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies. Around 188,300 common goldeneyes were killed annually by duck hunters in North America during the 1970s, representing slightly less than 4% of the total waterfowl killed in Canada during that period, and less ...