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Although a species of least concern, the Mexican duck is undergoing a slow but marked decline due to destruction of habitat and overhunting. It hybridizes with mallards which are better-adapted to utilizing habitat altered by human activity and thus are spreading throughout this range.
A black-bellied whistling duck in the water. The black-bellied whistling duck is a mid-sized waterfowl species. Length ranges from 47 to 56 cm (19 to 22 in), body mass from 652 to 1,020 g (1.437 to 2.249 lb), and wingspan ranges from 76 to 94 cm (30 to 37 in).
The Mexican duck, a species with a relatively small population experiences gene flow from both the Mottled duck and Mallards. This dilution of pure genes due to the propensity of species within the mallard complex to hybridize and backcross could cause issues for the genetic purity of the species.
This is a list of the bird species recorded in Mexico. The avifauna of Mexico included a total of 1136 species as of April 2024, according to Bird Checklists of the World . [ 1 ] Of the 1135 species, 113 are rare or accidental , 10 have been introduced by humans, 112 are endemic , and five more breed only in Mexico though their non-breeding ...
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.
The avian family Anatidae, commonly called waterfowl, comprise the ducks, geese, and swans. The International Ornithological Committee (IOC) recognizes these 174 Anatidae species distributed among 53 genera, 32 of which have only one species. Eight species on the list are extinct; they are marked (E). [1]
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This has created conservation concerns for relatives of the mallard, such as the Hawaiian duck, [124] [125] the New Zealand grey duck (A. s. superciliosa) subspecies of the Pacific black duck, [124] [126] the American black duck, [127] [128] the mottled duck, [129] Meller's duck, [130] the yellow-billed duck, [123] and the Mexican duck, [124 ...