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The lake duck (Oxyura vittata) is a small, South American stiff-tailed duck. It is also called the Argentine blue-bill , Argentine blue-billed duck , [ 2 ] Argentine lake duck , or Argentine ruddy duck .
It resembled a small ruddy duck or, even more, an Argentine blue-bill. A larger Middle Pleistocene fossil form from the southwestern United States was described as Oxyura bessomi; it was probably quite close to the ruddy duck. "Oxyura" doksana from the Early Miocene of Dolnice (Czech Republic) cannot be assigned to any anatine subfamily with ...
Andean duck (Oxyura ferruginea) (A) Lake duck (Oxyura vittata) New World quail ... Broad-billed prion (Pachyptila vittata) (A) Antarctic prion (Pachyptila desolata)
Oxyura jamaicensis (Gmelin 1789) (ruddy duck) LC; Subgenus (Cerconectes) Wagler 1832. Oxyura ferruginea (Eyton 1838) (Andean duck) LC; Oxyura vittata (Philippi 1860) (lake duck) LC; Oxyura australis Gould 1837 non Horn 1983 (blue-billed duck) NT; Oxyura maccoa (Eyton 1838) (maccoa duck) VU A4be; Oxyura leucocephala (Scopoli 1769) (white-headed ...
The rufous hornero is the national bird of Argentina. This is a list of the bird species recorded in Argentina. The avifauna of Argentina has 1043 confirmed species, of which 18 are endemic, nine have been introduced by humans, 68 are rare or vagrants, two are thought to be extinct, and four and possibly a fifth have been extirpated. An ...
Nearly 2,000 swimmers formed a long snaking line in a salty Argentine lake to set a world record for the most people floating while holding hands.
Ring-necked duck, Aythya collaris (V) Lesser scaup, Aythya affinis; Brazilian merganser, Mergus octosetaceus (E-SA) Black-headed duck, Heteronetta atricapilla (E-SA) Masked duck, Nomonyx dominicus; Ruddy duck, Oxyura jamaicensis; Lake duck, Oxyura vittata (E-SA)
Ruddy duck, Oxyura jamaicensis (the local subspecies is also called Andean duck) Lake duck, Oxyura vittata; New World quails. California quail, introduced in 1870.