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The yellow-billed duck (Anas undulata) is a 51–58 cm long dabbling duck which is an abundant resident breeder in southern and eastern Africa. This duck is not migratory, but wanders in the dry season to find suitable waters. It is highly gregarious outside the breeding season and forms large flocks.
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) Anas laysanensis Rothschild 1892 (Laysan duck) CR B1ac(iv) Anas wyvilliana Sclater 1878 (Hawaiian duck) EN B1ab(ii,iii,iv,v) Anas ...
Yellow-billed duck: Anas undulata Dubois, CF, 1838: 95 Meller's duck: Anas melleri Sclater, PL, 1865: 96 Pacific black duck: Anas superciliosa Gmelin, JF, 1789: 97 Laysan duck: Anas laysanensis Rothschild, 1892: 98 Hawaiian duck: Anas wyvilliana Sclater, PL, 1878: 99 Philippine duck: Anas luzonica Fraser, 1839: 100 Indian spot-billed duck: Anas ...
Anatidae: Eurasian teal (Anas crecca), gadwall (Anas strepera), northern pintail (Anas acuta), mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), greater scaup (Aythya marila), long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis), northern shoveler (Anas clypeata), garganey (Anas querquedula), Eurasian wigeon (Anas penelope), ferruginous duck (Aythya nyroca), common goldeneye ...
The Mallard complex is a large branch of the Anas genus consisting of twelve closely related species. [3] Mexican duck (A. diazi) American black duck (A. rubripes) Mottled duck (A. fulvigula) Mallard (A. platyrhynchos) Indian spot-billed duck (A. poecilorhyncha) Philippine duck (A. luzonica) Laysan duck (A. laysanensis) Hawaiian duck (A.Wyvilliana)
Anas, the dabbling ducks proper, is the largest bird genus in the family Anatidae. Pages in category "Anas" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of 39 total.
Anseriformes is an order of birds also known as waterfowl that comprises about 180 living species of birds in three families: Anhimidae (three species of screamers), Anseranatidae (the magpie goose), and Anatidae, the largest family, which includes over 170 species of waterfowl, among them the ducks, geese, and swans.
Puddle ducks spring straight up from the water, but diving ducks need to gain momentum to take off, so they must run across the water a short distance to gain flight. Traditionally, most ducks were assigned to either the shelducks , the perching ducks , and the dabbling and diving ducks ; the latter two were presumed to make up the Anatinae.