Anas fulvigula

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• Biology
• Taxonomy
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Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Vegetation: freshwater marshes, saltwater and brackish marshes • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbancet: Low

Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of 112 meters (368 feet).[1]

Ecology:
List of Habitats :5.4Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands 12.5Marine Intertidal - Salt Marshes (Emergent Grasses)

Biology

Diet

Mostly:

Aquatic Invertebrates

Lesser Quantities of: Seeds Green Plant Matter Fish

Reproduction

• Breeding Habitat : Wetland-open water
• Clutch Size: 5-13
• Length of Incubation : 25-27 days
• Days to Fledge : 60-70
• Number of Broods: 1

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 17-Oct-2001

Similar Species

American Black Duck is similar with broader brown edgings to upperparts and a bluer speculum. Female, immature and eclipse male Mallards always have blue speculums with white borders to both the front and rear margins. Beware of hybrid Mallard x Black Ducks that are usually paler than Black Ducks, with blue speculums and usually with white borders on one or both edges of the speculum.

Members of the genus Anas

There are approximately 186 species in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:

A. (Mareca) penelope · A. acuta (Northern Pintail) · A. acuta acuta (Northern Pintail) · A. acuta drygalskii (Northern Pintail) · A. acuta eatoni (Northern Pintail) · A. acuta tzitzihoa · A. albogularis · A. americana (American Wigeon / Baldpate) · A. anas · A. andium · A. angustirostris · A. arcuata · A. aucklandica (Campbell Island Flightless Teal) · A. aucklandica aucklandica (New Zealand Brown Teal) · A. aucklandica chlorotis · A. aucklandica nesiotis (Campbell Island Flightless Teal) · A. aurita · A. bahamensis (White-Cheeked Pintail) · A. bahamensis bahamensis (White-Cheeked Pintail) · A. bahamensis galapagensis (White-Cheeked Pintail Duck) · A. bahamensis rubirostris · A. bahamensis rubrirostris · A. bahamensis ssp · A. bernieri (Madagascar Teal) · A. blanchardi · A. boscas · A. boschas · A. boschas domesticus · A. brasiliensis · A. capensis (African Cape Teal) · A. carolinensis (Green-Winged Teal) · A. castanea (Chestnut-Breasted Teal) · A. chiloensis · A. chlorotis (Brown Teal) · A. circia · A. clypeata (Red-Breasted Shoveler) · A. clypeata x · A. crecca (Green Winged Teal) · A. crecca carolinensis (Green-Winged Teal) · A. crecca crecca (Green-Winged Teal) · A. crecca nimia (Aleutian Green-Winged Teal) · A. cristata · A. cyanoptera (South American Teal) · A. cyanoptera borreroi · A. cyanoptera cyanoptera (South American Teal) · A. cyanoptera orinoma · A. cyanoptera orinomus · A. cyanoptera septentrionalium (Cinnamon Teal) · A. cyanoptera ssp · A. cyanoptera tropica · A. cyanoptera tropicus · A. diazi (New Mexican Duck) · A. diazi novimexicana (New Mexican Duck) · A. discors (Blue Winged Teal) · A. discors discors (Blue-Winged Teal) · A. discors orphna (Blue-Winged Teal) · A. domesticus · A. drygalskii · A. eatoni (Eaton's Pintail) · A. eatoni drygalskii · A. eatoni eatoni · A. erythrophthalma · A. erythrorhyncha (Red-Billed Duck) · A. falcata (Bronze-Capped Teal) · A. flavirostris (Speckled/chilean Teal) · A. flavirostris altipetens · A. flavirostris andinum · A. flavirostris andium · A. flavirostris flavirostris (Speckled/chilean Teal) · A. flavirostris oxyptera · A. flavirostris ssp · A. floridana · A. formosa (Spectacled Teal) · A. formosa georgi (Spectacled Teal) · A. formosus · A. fretensis · A. fulcigula (Mottled Duck) · A. fuligula · A. fulva · A. fulvigula (Summer Black Duck) · A. fulvigula fulvigula (Summer Black Duck) · A. fulvigula maculosa (Mottled Duck) · A. gambensis · A. georgica (Yellow-Billed Pintail) · A. georgica georgica (Yellow-Billed Pintail) · A. georgica niceforoi · A. georgica spinicauda · A. gibberifrons (Sunda Teal) · A. gibberifrons albogularis · A. gibberifrons gibberifrons (Sunda Teal) · A. gibberifrons gracilis · A. gracilis (Grey Teal) · A. gracilis gracilis · A. hottentota (Hottentot Teal) · A. hybrid · A. hybrids · A. javanica · A. laysanensis (Laysan Duck) · A. leucophrys (Ringed Teal) · A. leucostigma

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Further Reading

• A fossil egg from South Dakota / by Oliver Cummings Farrington. Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1899. ENG url p. 199.
• A history of the birds of Colorado, by William Lutley Sclater London, Witherby & co., 1912. ENG url p. 570.
• A popular handbook of the birds of the United States and Canada, by Thomas Nuttall. Boston, Little, Brown, 1903. ENG url p. 316.
• A popular handbook of the ornithology of eastern North America. By Thomas Nuttall. Boston, Little, Brown, and Company, 1896. ENG url p. 316.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 154, p. 68.
• Archiv für Naturgeschichte. Berlin: Nicolai, 1835- GER url p. 157.
• Banks, R. C., R. W. McDiarmid, A. L. Gardner, and W. C. Starnes 2003. Checklist of Vertebrates of the United States, the U.S. Territories, and Canada.
• BirdLife International. 2000. Threatened Birds of the World. Lynx Edicions and BirdLife International, Barcelona, Spain and Cambridge, U.K.
• BirdLife International. 2004 Threatened Birds of the World 2004. CD-ROM. BirdLife International, Cambridge, U.K.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 248, p. 48, p. 68, p. 68, p. 72.
• Catalogue of birds of the Americas and the adjacent islands in Field Museum of Natural History. Charles E. Hellmayr, Boardman Conover. Chicago: Field Museum of Natural History, 1948. ENG url p. 329.
• Catalogue of the Birds in the British Museum. London, 1874-98. ENG url p. 202, p. 203.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 421, p. 503.
• Check-list of North American birds: according to the canons of nomenclature of the American Ornithologists' Union. [s.l.]: The Union, 1889. ENG url p. 14.
• Ehrlich, P., Dobkin, D., and Wheye, D. (1988). The Birders Handbook: A Field Guide to the Natural History of North American Birds. New York: Simon and Schuster Inc. (info on clutch size, length of incubation, days to fledge and number of broods.)
• FWS/0BS. [Washington]Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Dept. of the Interior. ENG url p. 138, p. 202, p. 22, p. 25, p. 442, p. 72, p. 8, p. 91.
• Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. ENG url p. 529.
• History of the birds of Kansas. By N. S. Goss. Illustrating 529 birds. Topeka, Kan., G. W. Crane, 1891. ENG url p. 57.
• Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington [etc., Washington Academy of Sciences] ENG url p. 410.
• Key to North American birds. Containing a concise account of every species of living and fossil bird at present known from the continent north of the Mexican and United States boundary, inclusive of Greenland and lower California Boston, Estes and Lauriat, 1890. ENG url p. 905.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1946-1996. ENG url p. 12, p. 12.
• Naturalist's guide to the Americas, prepared by the Committee on the Preservation of Natural Conditions of the Ecological Society of America, with assistance from numerous organizations and individuals, assembled and edited by chairman, Baltimore, Williams & Wilkins, 1926. ENG url p. 745.
• Nests and eggs of North American birds; by Oliver Davie. Columbus [O.]Hann & Adair, 1889. ENG url p. 62.
• Ornithologische Monatsberichte. Berlin. GER url p. 35.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 267.
• Proceedings of the United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.] ENG url p. 171, p. 250, p. 490, p. 99.
• Robbins, C.S., Bruun, B., Zim, H.S., (1966). Birds of North America. New York: Western Publishing Company, Inc. (Length and wingspan info.)
• Smithsonian miscellaneous collections. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1862-1968. ENG url p. 20, p. 203, p. 220, p. 222, p. 250, p. 29, p. 490, p. 8.
• The Canadian bird book: illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred north American birds, also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs / by Chester A. Reed. Toronto: Musson Book Co., c1914. ENG url p. 90.
• The birds of eastern North America known to occur east of the nineteenth meridian by Charles B. Cory Chicago, Printed for the Field Columbian Museum [by A. Mudge], 1899. ENG url p. 334.
• The birds of eastern North America: known to occur east of the ninetieth meridian / by Charles B. Cory. Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, 1899. ENG url p. 334.
• The birds of the West Indies. Including all speciesknown to occur in the Bahama Islands, the Greater Antilles, the Caymans, and the Lesser Antilles, excepting the islands of Tobago and Trinidad. By Charles B. Cory. Boston, Estes & Lauriat, 1889. ENG url p. 262.
• The code of nomenclature and check-list of North American birds adopted by the American Ornithologists' Union; being the report of the Committee of the Union on Classification and Nomenclature. New York, 1886. ENG url p. 115.
• The game birds of North America; a descriptive checklist, by Frank A. Bates. Boston, B. Whidden, 1896. ENG url p. 14.
• The oist. Albion, N.Y.: Frank H. Lattin, 1886-1941. ENG url p. 187.
• Travels and traditions of waterfowl. Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press[1955] ENG url p. 285.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas. ENG url p. 314, p. 661.
• Zentralblatt für Zoologie, allgemeine und experimentelle Biologie. Leipzig: B.G. Teubner, [1912-1918] GER url p. 110.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Anas fulvigula. In: IUCN 2006. 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. www.iucnredlist.org . Downloaded on 21 October 2006.
• BirdLife International 2004. In IUCN 2008. 2008 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. IUCNRedList.org. Downloaded July 18, 2008.
• Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2007. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed March 21, 2007.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 03, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 3 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• NatureServe. 2003. Downloadable animal data sets. NatureServe Central Databases. Accessed February 6, 2005.
• Parker III, T.A., D.F. Stotz, and J.W. Fitzpatrick, "Ecological and Distributional Databases for Neotropical Birds," in Neotropical Birds: Ecology and Conservation, by D.F. Stotz, T.A. Parker III, J.W. Fitzpatrick, and D.K. Moskovits (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996). ISBN 0-226-64676-9.
• Peterson, Alan P. Zoological Nomenclature Resource. Accessed June 19, 2009.
• Sauer, J. R., J. E. Hines, and J. Fallon. 2005. The North American Breeding Bird Survey, Results and Analysis 1966 - 2004. Version 2005.2. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD
• Sauer, J. R., S. Schwartz, and B. Hoover. 1996. The Christmas Bird Count Home Page. Version 95.1. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 03, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854368
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175072
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13729682
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175070
• IUCN ID: 47187
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNJB10050
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 13678

Footnotes

1. Standard Deviation = 597.930 based on 8,925 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]

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