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The lake duck is a partially migratory species. It lives in bodies of freshwater with large amounts of vegetation, such as wetlands and lakes. [2] It is very widespread, naturally occurring in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay, and having been introduced to the Falkland Islands. It has a stable population of 6,700–67,000, with ...
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 ...
Lake duck, O. vittata The black-headed duck of Heteronetta is indisputably quite basal , looking more like a typical duck-like Anatidae with a short tail and normal bill. The masked duck of Nomonyx has a more intermediate position; it probably diverged from the lineage leading to the main radiation some time after Heteronetta .
Ruddy duck: Oxyura jamaicensis (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 168 Andean duck: Oxyura ferruginea (Eyton, 1838) 169 Lake duck: Oxyura vittata (Philippi, 1860) 170 Blue-billed duck: Oxyura australis Gould, 1837: 171 Maccoa duck: Oxyura maccoa (Eyton, 1838) 172 White-headed duck: Oxyura leucocephala (Scopoli, 1769) 173 Musk duck: Biziura lobata (Shaw, 1796) 174
The Oxyura genus is commonly referred to as stiff-tailed ducks. It is widely agreed that Oxyura and Nomonyx (a genus with a single species - the masked duck - Nomonyx dominicus) are sister groups, and these results have been shown in both trait-based and genome-based phylogenies over the past 30 years.
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 1044 confirmed species, of which 18 are endemic, nine have been introduced by humans, 69 are rare or vagrants, two are thought to be extinct, and four and possibly a fifth have been extirpated. An ...
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These genera are Cnesia, Cnesiamima, Gigantodax, Paraustrasimulium, and Simulium (Pternaspatha), a subgenus of Simulium with 19 species; these account for 57% of the Simuliidae fauna found in Argentina. [24] Nahuelito is a lake monster named after the Nahuel Huapi Lake as its sighting in the lake is reported widely. Whether it is a fact or ...