Anas rubripes

• Common Names
• Description
• Biology
• Taxonomy
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• Notes

Common Names

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Description

Physical Description

Habitat

Found in marshes, ponds , bays , and estuaries.

Biology

Diet

Mostly green plant matter and seeds, with some aquatic invertebrates and fish.

Reproduction

Nests from mid-March to early September.

• Breeding Habitat : Wetland-open water
• Clutch Size: 8-10
• Length of Incubation : 26-29(23-33) days
• Days to Fledge : 58-63
• Number of Broods: usually 1

Migration

Migratory

Taxonomy

Notes

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

Similar Species

Mallard

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 biological survey of the waters of Woods Hole and vicinity / By Francis B. Sumner, Raymond C. Osburn, and Leon J. Cole. Washington: Govt. Print. Off., 1913 ENG url p. 778, p. 779, p. 836.
• A checklist of the vertebrate animals of Kansas / George D. Potts, Joseph T. Collins. [Lawrence, Kan.]: Museum of Natural History, University of Kansas, 1991. ENG url p. 7.
• A systematic list of the birds of California / by Joseph Grinnell. Hollywood: Cooper Ornithological Club, 1912. ENG url p. 8.
• Alsop, Fred J. III. Birds of North America - Eastern Region. First American Edition. Smithsonian Handbooks. DK Publishing, Inc. 2001.
• Animal Ecology. Englewood Cliffs, N.J., Prentice-Hall, 1961. ENG url p. 454.
• Annual report of the Board of Regents of the Smithsonian Institution. Washington: Smithsonian Institution, -1965. ENG url p. 103, p. 103, p. 105, p. 117, p. 120, p. 121, p. 127, p. 146, p. 148, p. 149, p. 74, p. 93, p. 93, p. 93, p. 96.
• 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.
• Bird-lore. New York, National Association of Audubon Societies. ENG url p. 14.
• 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.
• Birds and nature in natural colors: being a scientific and popular treatise on four hundred birds of the United States and Canada. Chicago: A.W. Mumford, Publisher, 1913-1914. ENG url p. 483.
• Birds in Kansas / Max C. Thompson and Charles Ely. Lawrence, Kan.: University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History: c1989- ENG url p. 79.
• Birds of America; editor-in-chief, T. Gilbert Pearson; consulting editor, John Burroughs; artists, R.I. Brasher, R. Bruce Horsfall [and] Henry Thurston. New York, The University Society, 1923. ENG url p. 116.
• Birds of eastern Canada, by P. A. Taverner. Ottawa, J. de L. Tachprinter, 1919. ENG url p. 66.
• Bulletin - United States National Museum. Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, [etc.];1877-1971. ENG url p. 246, p. 248, p. 249, p. 395.
• Bulletin / Peabody Museum of Natural History. New Haven: The Museum, ENG url p. 11, p. 23, p. 4.
• Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College. Cambridge, Mass.: The Museum, ENG url p. 76.
• Cassinia. Philadelphia, Delaware Valley Ornithological Club. ENG url p. 53.
• 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. 327, p. 328, p. 360.
• Check-list of North American birds / prepared by a committee of the American ornithologists' union. Lancaster, Pa.: The Union, 1931. ENG url p. 365, p. 369, p. 421, p. 522.
• Color key to North American birds, with bibliographical appendix, by Frank M. Chapman with upwards of 800 drawings, by Chester A. Reed, B.S. New York, D. Appleton and Company, 1912. ENG url p. 294.
• Distribution and abundance of fishes and invertebrates in Gulf of Mexico estuaries / project team, David M. Nelson (editor) [et al.]. Rockville, Md.: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Ocean Service, [1992]-[1997] ENG url p. 35.
• 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. 122, p. 138, p. 19, p. 219, p. 220, p. 221, p. 222, p. 223, p. 224, p. 225, p. 227, p. 229, p. 52, p. 8.
• Fishery bulletin of the Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, The Service, U.S. Govt Print. Off. ENG url p. 531.
• Fishery circular / U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Fisheries. [Washington]: The Bureau, 1931-1939. ENG url p. 87.
• Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences. Washington [etc., Washington Academy of Sciences] ENG url p. 410, p. 589.
• Michigan bird life: a list of all the bird species known to occur in the State together with an outline of their classification and an account of the life history of each species, with special reference to its relation t by Walter Bradford Barrows. Lansing: Michigan Agricultural College, 1912. ENG url p. 78.
• Miscellaneous publication - University of Kansas, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas, 1946-1996. ENG url p. 12, p. 12, p. 20, p. 27, p. 39.
• Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia, Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia] ENG url p. 691.
• Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science. Indianapolis, Ind.[s.n.] ENG url p. 322.
• Protozoan parasites of domestic animals and of man. Minneapolis, Burgess Pub. Co.[1961] ENG url p. 243.
• Protozoology, by Richard Roksabro Kudo... with two hundred and ninety-one illustrations. Springfield, Ill., Thomas[c1939] ENG url p. 645.
• 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. 10, p. 20, p. 29.
• The Biological bulletin. Woods Hole, Mass.: Marine Biological Laboratory, ENG url p. 348.
• 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 Canadian field-naturalist. Ottawa, The Ottawa-Field-Naturalists Club. ENG url p. 123, p. 161, p. 91.
• The Great Basin naturalist. Provo, Utah, M.L. Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University. ENG url p. 518, p. 730.
• The Ottawa naturalist. Ottawa, Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club. ENG url p. 124, p. 125, p. 142, p. 159, p. 229.
• The University of Kansas science bulletin. [Lawrence]: University of Kansas, 1902-1996. ENG url p. 141, p. 522.
• The 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. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page and company, 1915. ENG url p. 90.
• The birds of Connecticut, by John Hall Sage and Louis Bennett Bishop, assisted by Walter Parks Bliss. Hartford, Printed for the State Geological and Natural History Survey, 1913. ENG url p. 190, p. 192, p. 30.
• The birds of Illinois and Wisconsin. Chicago, 1909. ENG url p. 321, p. 321, p. 62, p. 751, p. 751.
• The birds of Wyoming, with an explanation of recent changes in their distribution; economic aspect also considered. By B. H. Grave and Ernest P. Walker. [Laramie]University of Wyoming, 1913. ENG url p. 83.
• The exploitation of natural animal populations; a symposium of the British Ecological Society, Durham, 28th-31st March 1960. Edited by E. D. Le Cren and M. W. Holdgate. New York, Wiley[1962] ENG url p. 392, p. 89, p. 92.
• The oist. Albion, N.Y.: Frank H. Lattin, 1886-1941. ENG url p. 124.
• Tulane studies in zoology. New Orleans, Tulane University. ENG url p. 98.
• University of Kansas publications, Museum of Natural History. Lawrence, University of Kansas. ENG url p. 314.

Notes

Contributors

• BirdLife International 2004. Anas rubripes. 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 and 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 February 29, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 16 providers.
• Hines, J. E., Gregory Gough, J. R. Sauer, et al. USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
• 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 February 29, 2008:

• Avian Knowledge Network: eBird
• Avian Knowledge Network: Great Backyard Bird Count
• Avian Knowledge Network: Project FeederWatch
• Bird Studies Canada: Marsh Monitoring Program - Birds
• Bird Studies Canada: Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas 1981-1985
• Bird Studies Canada: Ontario Breeding Bird Atlas 2001-2005
• Borror Laboratory of Bioacoustics
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: North West Territories and Nunavut Bird Checklist, Canada
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Ontario Nest Records
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Provincial Museum of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada. Birds (Aves)
• Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility: Royal British Columbia Museum
• Canadian Museum of Nature: Canadian Museum of Nature Bird Collection
• EMAN Provider: PIROP (Shipboard Surveys)
• Finnish Museum of Natural History: Hatikka Observation Data Gateway
• GBIF-Sweden: Birds (GBIF-SE:Artdatabanken)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: Bay of Fundy Species List (OBIS Canada)
• Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University: SEAMAP - marine mammals, birds and turtles
• Marine Science Institute, UCSB: Paleobiology Database
• Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University: MCZ Ornithology Collection
• Museum of Vertebrate Zoology: Terrestrial vertebrate specimens
• New Brunswick Museum: NBM birds
• Royal Ontario Museum: Bird specimens
• UCLA-Dickey Bird Collection (UCLA-Dickey): Bird specimens
• University of Michigan Museum of Zoology (UMMZ): Bird specimens

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 3854367
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175068
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13729682
• Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175068
• IUCN ID: 47186
• Natural Heritage Network Species Identifier: ABNJB10040
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 7225

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