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 Probert Encyclopaedia: Nature (An)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anas is the duck genus of birds of the sub-family Anatinae, order Natatores.
Anatinae is the duck, Widgeon, Teal and Sheldrake sub-family of birds of the family Anatidae.
The members of the sub-family are distinguished by a bill of equal width throughout, or broader at the top than at the base, of about the same length as the head; short legs placed behind the middle of the body; the hind toe being without a pendent membrane; and a somewhat round tarsi.
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 Anatinae: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Anatinae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Anatinae: Definition and Links by Encyclopedian.com - All about Anatinae
The Anatinae is one of the subfamilies of the family Anatidae, which includes the swans, geese and ducks.
The Anatinae subfamily contains three groups of ducks:
www.encyclopedian.com /an/Anatinae.html   (139 words)

  
 ADW: Anatidae: Information
The plumage of Anseranatinae and Anserinae taxa is generally sexually monomorphic, whereas Anatinae plumage is sexually dimorphic.
Anseranatinae (Magpie Goose) is hypothesized as most basal within Anatidae, and sister to the group comprising Anserinae (swans and geese) and Anatinae (ducks).
Within Anatinae, the composition of tribes Tadorini and Cairini have also been frequently revised.
animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu /site/accounts/information/Anatidae.html   (1651 words)

  
 sc5_Anatinae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
, also known as pochards, make up a sub-group of the biological subfamily Anatinae, which itself is part of the diverse and very large duck, goose and swan family, Anatidae.
The exception is the Marbled duck Marmaronetta angustirostris, which is often alternatively classed as a pochard.
The Marbled Duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris) is difficult to classify, but is often also placed in the diving duck group.
www.waterfowlsouthafrica.com /scientifiic%20class/sc5_Anatinae.htm   (565 words)

  
 Seleventi Tribes   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Characteristics: Slightly compact in form, the females of the Anatinae tend to be drab brown.
The males, however, boast iridescent green plumage on the head and neck, and a similarly iridescent blue speculum on the wings.
General Demeanor: A very calm and simple people, the Anatinae tend to spend much of their time on or near the water, and are vegetarians by nature.
www.lyrantalpress.com /races/seleventi2.htm   (2910 words)

  
 managedcare.ca - Anatinae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Clasificación de los Patos (Subamilia Anatinae) en el Reino Animal.
Los Patos (Subfamilia Anatinae) en el Reino Animal...
which have little resemblance to those of any other Anatinae, except perhaps to some of the postures of the stiff...
www.managedcare.ca /Anatinae/reference/fullview/wikipedia/218020   (131 words)

  
 Duck Habitat and Population Size   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Abstract: During 1987-90, we used high-altitude photography, aerial videography, counts, and models to estimate sizes of breeding populations of dabbling ducks (Anatinae) and duck production and to identify duck habitat on U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service land and easements and on private land in the prairie pothole region of the United States.
-- Numbers of 10.4-km² plots (n) for evaluating duck (Anatinae) habitat and estimating numbers of ducks and number of plots covered by videography (NV) during 1987-90 in the prairie pothole region of the United States.
-- Average density of breeding ducks (Anatinae) by landownership class during 1987-90 in the prairie pothole region of the United States.
www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/duckhab/duckhab.htm   (1235 words)

  
 PHYLOGENY AND COMPARATIVE ECOLOGY OF STIFF-TAILED DUCKS (ANATIDAE: OXYURINI)
Characters in which the derived state(s) were possessed by single species (autapomorphies) were included in the analysis because of the pervasive influence such differences have had on traditional classification and because this permits estimates of evolutionary divergence and phenetic differences among species.
Although the inclusion of Mergini and Oxyurini in the Anatinae is reasonably well supported (Livezey 1986), the relationships among the tribes of Anatinae remain poorly resolved (Livezey, unpubl.
Polarities (directionalities of character change) were es- tablished by ascertaining the distributions of states of each character in the other tribes of Anatinae; these states were hypothesized to be the primitive conditions (plesiomorphous states) for the characters with respect to the ingroup (Oxyurini).
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Wilson/v107n02/p0214-p0234.html   (10175 words)

  
 Anatinae - TheBestLinks.com - Aves, Animal, Bird, Chordate, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Anatinae, Aves, Animal, Bird, Chordate, Duck, Goose, Swan, Scientific...
The Anatinae is one of the subfamilies of the family Anatidae, which includes the swans, geese and ducks.
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 Anatinae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The Anatinae is one of the subfamilies of the family Anatidae, which includes the swan s, geese and duck s.
(See Anatidae for an overview of this group of bird s.) The Anatinae subfamily contains two groups of ducks:
The dabbling duck group, of worldwide distribution, include 10 genera and about 55 species:
www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Anatinae.html   (196 words)

  
 duck --  Britannica Concise Encyclopedia - Your gateway to all Britannica has to offer!
Any of various relatively small, short-necked, large-billed waterfowl (several genera in subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae).
The legs of true ducks (Anatinae) are placed rearward (as are those of swans), resulting in a waddling gait.
Most true ducks differ from swans and true geese (see goose) in that male ducks molt twice annually, females lay large clutches of smooth-shelled eggs, and both sexes have overlapping scales on the skin of the leg and exhibit some differences between sexes in plumage and in call.
concise.britannica.com /ebc/article-9363161   (818 words)

  
 Headquarters West Ltd.; Flying Diamond Ranch   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In true ducks, i.e., those classified in Anatinae, the legs are placed rearward, as in swans, resulting in a waddling gait.
All true ducks, except those in the shelduck group and sea ducks, mature in the first year and pair only for the season--unlike the late-maturing, life-mating true geese and swans.
The whistling duck species, also called tree ducks, are not true ducks but are more closely related to the geese and swans.
www.headquarterswest.com /wildlife/duck.html   (208 words)

  
 Volume 49/Number 2/Abstract 09   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The work aimed at the determination of the species composition as well as the intensity and prevalence of the nematode infection of the stomach of wild ducks (subfamily Anatinae) from NW Poland.
The birds acquired for the study (143 specimens) represented three tribes of varied biology and ecology: Anatini, Aythyini and Mergini.
The parasitic nematode fauna of the wild duck stomachs was noted to be quite abundant at the level of the host population (6 species: Eustrongylides mergorum, Hystrichis tricolor, Amidostomum acutum, Tetrameres fissispina, Streptocara crassicauda, Echinuria uncinata), though it was considerably plentiful in Anatini (5 species), and scarce in Aythyini (2 species).
www.actaparasitologica.pan.pl /archive/49/toc49122.html   (198 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Thanksgiving   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Other uses: Goose (disambiguation) Genera Anser Branta Chen Cereopsis Cnemiornis (extinct) †see also: Swan, Duck Anatidae Goose (plural geese) is the general English name for a considerable number of birds, belonging to the family Anatidae.
Subfamilies Dendrocygninae Oxyurinae Anatinae Merginae Duck is the common name for a number of species in the Anatidae bird family.
Christmas (literally, the Mass of Christ) is a holiday in the Christian calendar, usually observed on December 25, which celebrates the birth of Jesus.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Thanksgiving   (7212 words)

  
 Anatidae - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The listing in the box at right should be regarded simply one of several possible ways of organising the many species within the Anatidae.
This group of larger, often semi-terrestrial waterfowl can be seen as intermediate between Anserinae and Anatinae.
Recent revision has resulted in the inclusion of 10 extant genera with 23 living species (one probably extinct) in this subfamily, mostly from the Southern Hemisphere but a few in the Northern Hemisphere:
www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Anatidae   (692 words)

  
 II SUBFAMILY ANATINAE
RIVER DUCKS The river ducks, also called surface-feeding ducks, occupy a central position among the Anatinae, between the sheldrake tribe of mostly grazing species and the diving tribe of pochards.
The sea ducks generally have very elaborate displays which have little resemblance to those of any other Anatinae, except perhaps to some of the postures of the stiff-tailed ducks.
All sea ducks live in the cold or temperate parts of the northern hemisphere, with the curious exception of two rare southern mergansers inhabiting Brazil (octosetaceus) and the Auckland Islands, south of New Zealand (australis).
elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Wilson/v057n01/p0011-p0036.html   (22721 words)

  
 DIALOG Dissertation Abstracts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
I interpreted positive relationships between tiger salamander density and phytoplankton standing crop as an indirect effect of nutrient recycling and transfer by tiger salamanders rather than direct consumer-resource interactions between trophic levels.
I compared dietary and pothole overlap between ducks (Subfamily Anatinae) and tiger salamanders to estimate the potential for indirect interactions.
I found that dabbling ducks had greater overlap in diet with tiger salamanders than diving ducks, but that diving ducks overlapped more among potholes with tiger salamanders than dabbling ducks.
www.aslo.org /phd/dialog/200208-3.html   (363 words)

  
 Enten - Wikipedia
Die Enten (Anatinae) sind eine Unterfamilie der Entenvögel.
Zu dieser Gruppe gehören die meisten der umgangssprachlich als Ente bezeichneten Tiere.
Die Anatinae unterteilen sich in mehrere Triben, nämlich die Schwimmenten, die Meeresenten, die Ruderenten, und die Tauchenten.
de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Enten   (62 words)

  
 Perching duck - Wikpedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Wood Duck Aix sponsa: Anatinae, dabbling duck subgroup
Cotton Pygmy Goose Nettapus coromandellanus: Anatinae, dabbling duck subgroup
African Pygmy Goose Nettapus auritus: Anatinae, dabbling duck subgroup
www.bostoncoop.net /~tpryor/wiki/index.php?title=Perching_duck   (176 words)

  
 Palaeos Vertebrates 360.700 Galloanserae: Anatidae   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Notes: [1] The notation "[L97*]" indicates a synapomorphy based on the osteological dataset of [L97] run under PHYLIP with all characters unordered.
Characters: iridescent coloring on wing secondaries only; normally feed by reaching down with bill (not diving) to obtain plants and small invertebrates in very shallow water or even on land; freshwater surface feeders;.
Links: Aythyini; Anatidae- Anatinae- Aythyini; Dakotas Prairie Basin Wetlands; Ootkee (Russian); Kolbenenten (German); Bradley C. Livezey; MORPHOLOGY - by date (bibliography); Systematic Biology 48(4) Abstracts (more molecular muddles, but much more thoughtful than most); WIEM- Grazyce (Polish); ATW030222.
www.palaeos.com /Vertebrates/Units/360Galloanserae/360.700.html   (625 words)

  
 dabbling duck --  Encyclopædia Britannica
They feed mainly on water plants, which they obtain by tipping-up in shallows—uncommonly by diving (with opened wings); they often forage near the shore for seeds and insects.
These waterfowl are taxonomically placed into seven subfamilies: swans and typical geese, Anserinae; dabbling ducks and atypical geese, Anatinae; whistling ducks, Dendrocygninae; magpie goose, Anseranatinae; stiff-tailed ducks, Oxyurinae; shelducks, Tadorninae; and sea ducks, Merginae.
Humans have long been studying the flight of birds and trying to imitate it.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9028476?&query=black   (792 words)

  
 duck --  Encyclopædia Britannica
any of several genera of relatively small, short-necked, large-billed waterfowl that belong to the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae (q.v.
any of several genera of relatively small, short-necked, large-billed waterfowl that belong to the subfamily Anatinae, family Anatidae (q.v.), order Anseriformes.
Most true ducks, including a few inaccurately called geese by reason of size and...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9031350   (779 words)

  
 Entenvögel -- Entenvögel Stockente ? (Anas platyrhynchos) Systemati...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Die Systematik innerhalb der Familie ist noch im Fluss.
Oft werden von der im Folgenden weit gefassten Unterfamilie der Enten (Anatinae) noch die hier als Triben behandelten Meerenten (Mergini) und Ruderenten (Oxyurini) als weitere Unterfamilien Merginae bzw.
Die Berechtigung der Affenenten (Stictonettinae) als eigene Unterfamilie ist nicht ganz sicher.
entenvoegel.exsudo.de   (116 words)

  
 Glossary
Dry Brood- Process of brooding without access to bathing water.
Duck- Generically, any member of the Anatinae family; Specifically a female Anatinae.
Eclipse Molt- The subdued plumage acquired by drakes after the breeding season.
www.angelfire.com /country/DOGWOOD/glossery.html   (314 words)

  
 Wood duck | TutorGig.co.uk Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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moschata Anatinae, dabbling duck subgroup White winged Wood Duck Cairina scutulata Anatinae, dabbling duck subgroup Wood Duck Aix sponsa Anatinae, dabbling duck subgroup Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata
Duck was the name of two related amphibious aircraft amphibious biplane s built by Grumman the JF Duck the J2F Duck disambig
www.tutorgig.co.uk /encyclopedia/sencyclo.jsp?keywords=Wood+duck   (447 words)

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