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The greater roadrunner is the state bird of New Mexico. This list of birds of New Mexico are the species documented in the U.S. state of New Mexico and accepted by the New Mexico Bird Records Committee (NMBRC). As of August 2022, 552 species were included in the official list. Of them, 176 are on the review list (see below), five species have been introduced to North America, and three have ...
New Mexico Wildlife "Ladd S. Gordon Waterfowl Complex" (PDF). New Mexico Department of Game & Fish. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-03-22; Liddell, Judith; Hussey, Barbara (2011-10-26). Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico. Texas A&M University Press. ISBN 978-1-60344-426-2
Wood duck (state waterfowl) Aix sponsa: 1974 [65] Missouri: Bobwhite quail (state game bird) Colinus virginianus: 2007 [66] New Hampshire: Red-tailed hawk (state raptor) Buteo jamaicensis: 2019 [67] Oklahoma: Wild turkey (state game bird) Meleagris gallopavo: 1990 [68] Oregon: Osprey (state raptor) Pandion haliaetus: 2017 [69] Pennsylvania ...
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. Most modern species in the ...
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]
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).
Oct. 30—AUSTIN — Waterfowl season is on the horizon and as hunters across the state start prepping their gear and boats for opening day, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) reminds ...
The heaviest living bird native to North America, it is also the largest extant species of waterfowl, with a wingspan of 185 to 304.8 cm (6 ft 2 in to 10 ft 2 in). [3] [4] It is the American counterpart and a close relative of the whooper swan (Cygnus cygnus) of Eurasia, and even has been considered the same species by some authorities. [5]