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  Tufted Duck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula) is a medium-sized diving duck with a population close to one million birds.
The only drake duck which is at all similar is the North American Ring-necked Duck, which however has a different head shape, no tuft and greyish flanks.
These ducks are migratory in most of their range, and winter in the milder south and west of Europe, southern Asia and all year in most of theUK.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tufted_Duck   (269 words)

  
 Tufted Duck: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The ring-necked duck (aythya collaris) is a smaller diving duck....
The wood duck (aix sponsa) is a medium-sized perching duck....
The long-tailed duck (clangula hyemalis) is a medium-sized sea duck....
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/tu/tufted_duck.htm   (851 words)

  
 Duck Sounds
Ducks exploit a variety of food sources such as grasses, grains and water plants, fish, insects, and the like.
Ducks have many domestic uses, being farmed for their meat, eggs, and feathers and down.
Ducks should not be confused with several types of unrelated birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots.
www.junglewalk.com /sound/duck-sounds-P2.htm   (271 words)

  
 Tufted duck
The drake of the tufted duck is immediately recognised by the pigtail of feathers on the head and the bold fl and white plumage.
Tufted ducks are very tolerant of humans, although not to the same degree as mallards.
Their diet is mainly molluscs, crustaceans, insect larvae and seeds gathered from the bottom, and the national increase in tufted ducks may be in part due to the introduced zebra mussel successfully colonising gravel pits.
homepage.ntlworld.com /rwburton/naturenotes/ducktufted   (245 words)

  
 Tufted duck - Aythya fuligula: More Information - ARKive
To add to the confusion, tufted ducks are known to hybridise with both these species, leading to offspring that can resemble both parents at a distance.
Tufted ducks range across nearly all of Europe and the UK and there are resident breeding populations in Britain, northern France, Germany and Poland.
Tufted ducks belong to the group known as diving ducks, and feed mainly on water animals.
www.arkive.org /species/ARK/birds/Aythya_fuligula/more_info.html   (667 words)

  
 Tufted duck
Tufted ducks are one of the most common diving ducks.
Conservation news: Tufted ducks are one of the most common diving ducks.
In the last 100 years, tufted ducks have increased in numbers and now occur over a much larger range than before.
www.bristolzoo.org.uk /learning/animals/birds/tufted-duck   (339 words)

  
 Tufted Duck
The young female Tufted Duck is similar in plumage to the adult female.
The male duck on its flanks and stomach is ivory white in color with a fl tail.
It is a common duck both in the east coast and southern sea islands of Sweden.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/birding/96722   (452 words)

  
 CentralPets.com - Duck - Tufted Page (Printer Friendly Version)
Tufted Ducks are not common in captivity, but they are favorites among bird watchers and duck lovers.
Tufted ducks are known as Kuifeend in German and Kinkuro Hajiro in Japanese.
Although the Tufted Duck is not usually bred in captivity, much of their breeding behavior in the wild has been documented.
centralpets.com /php/PrintFriendly.php?AnimalNumber=6007   (419 words)

  
 Ferruginous Duck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
These ducks breed in southern and eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.
The pure white undertail helps to distinguish this species from the somewhat similar Tufted Duck.
These are gregarious birds, forming large flocks in winter, often mixed with other diving ducks, such as Tufted Ducks and Pochards.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferruginous_Duck   (186 words)

  
 Troldand   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Tufted Duck is, together with the Coot, the most common bird in the fjord in the winter.
This is 3-5% (1 in 25) of all Tufted Duck on the northwest European migration route, which means that from the point of view of conservation this area is of international significance for the Tufted Duck.
The Tufted Duck has also recently developed a small breeding population on the islets in the southernmost part of the fjord.
roskilde-fjord.dk /uk/Fugle_Troldand.htm   (376 words)

  
 Birds of Iceland: Aythya fuligula, Tufted Duck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The male is easily recognizable by its purplish-fl/white appearance and the tuft on the head.
They differ slightly in size (the scaup is larger), the tufted duck female also has a small tuft which is rarely seen though.
The tufted ducks stay in Iceland during winter on ice-free lakes.
www.iceland-nh.net /birds/data/Aythya-fuligula/aythya_fuligula.html   (195 words)

  
 D and D Wildlife Photography - Tufted Duck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Tufted Duck has a rounded head with a crest, distinct in males, smaller in females.
Tufted ducks dive to feed on roots, seeds, and buds of aquatic plants and clams, snails, aquatic insects, and sometimes amphibians and small fishes.
Female Tufted Ducks nest on islands in lakes or on sloped banks of small wetlands in reeds, tufts of grass, or under bushes close to water and lay an average of nine greenish-grey eggs.
www.baymoon.com /~bbb/tufted_duck.htm   (201 words)

  
 Darwin's Domestic Animals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Call ducks are remarkable from their extraordinary loquacity: the drake only hisses like common drakes; nevertheless, when paired with the common duck, he transmits to his female offspring a strong quacking tendency.
The Penguin duck is the most remarkable of all the breeds; the thin neck and body are carried erect; the wings are small; the tail is upturned; and the thigh-bones and metatarsi are considerably lengthened in proportion with the same bones in the wild duck.
These latter bones in the Call duck are short, and a line drawn from their extremities to the summit of the skull is nearly straight, instead of being concave as in the common duck; so that the skull resembles that of a small goose.
www.avidpets.com /stories/darwins-animals.htm   (3294 words)

  
 The Ring-Necked Duck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
In shape, the Tufted Duck, or Ring-bill, as it is called in Kentucky, resembles the Scaup or Flocking Fowl, but is plumper and more rounded.
The bill of the Scaup Duck is still broader towards the end, with a much narrower unguis, and the flattened part of the upper mandible still narrower than in the Tufted Duck; the colour of the speculum is also different, being bluish-grey in the Ring-necked Duck, and white in the two allied species.
The females of the Ring-necked and Scaup Ducks, which are nearly similar in colour, differ in the speculum, and in the peculiar form of the bill.
www.abirdshome.com /Audubon/VolVI/00663.html   (1105 words)

  
 Tufted Duck, Aythya fuligula
This distinctive diving duck is a relatively uncommon visitor to Kenya during November to March.
The female (pictured right) has variable dull brown colouring but generally shows white on the chin and around the bill, it has a shorter crest.
Tufted Ducks feed on molluscs, seeds and green parts of aquatic plants.
www.kenyabirds.org.uk /tufted.htm   (155 words)

  
 B-Mail(sm): ID-FRONTIERS for February 22-29, 2004
Unless the WA duck is an anomalous image, the flat back to the head rings false for pure Tufted Duck and makes me strongly suspect Ring-necked in it's recent ancestry.
Tufted Duck head shape is relatively smoothly rounded, closer to Greater Scaup than Lesser Scaup, (really shown quite well in http://home.pacbell.net/robbie22/tudu/tudu.htm - in fact the second image down the page is in quite striking contrast to the WA bird).
There may be a chance this bird is an abnormal Tufted Duck, but too many features lean against that fact, that I'm am likely left with two options, the RNDU x TUDU option or to leave this bird as a likely hybrid, but officially unidentified.
www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/idfrontiers/200402/w4   (7369 words)

  
 B-Mail(sm): ID-FRONTIERS for March 1-9, 2002
Most duck do their courtship display on their wintering grounds, so a tufted duck/lesser scaup pairing could happen here in the wild and if I remeber correctly the male duck usually follwos the female to her breeding grounds.
Records of Tufted Duck x Lesser Scaup hybrids, on the other hand, seem to be very scarce; the author found only two references to birds that were suspected to be of this hybrid combination, namely: - Peterjohn, B. (1989): Description of a probable Tufted Duck x Lesser Scaup hybrid.
It should be noted that in the female probable Tufted Duck x Lesser Scaup described by Harrop (1998), the white wing stripe reached onto the primaries.
www.virtualbirder.com /bmail/idfrontiers/200203/w1   (3463 words)

  
 British Waterfowl Assocation - the Tufted Duck   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
From a distance the nuptial plumage of the male appears to be strikingly fl and white in colour.
The breeding range of the Tufted duck is throughout much of Northern Europe and Asia and it moves as far South as India during the winter.
The Tufted duck is very popular in captivity.
www.waterfowl.org.uk /pages/tufted.html   (224 words)

  
 BIRDWEST archives -- November 2000, week 4 (#22)
Sightings November 25 Two TUFTED DUCKS were seen today; an immature female at Iona's Outer Pond, and an immature male at Reifel Refuge.
Friday, November 24 A TUFTED DUCK, a female or immature male, spent its second day at Reifel Refuge, on the west marsh.
Thursday, Nov. 23: The TUFTED DUCK arrived on the west marsh at Reifel Refuge.
listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind0011d&L=birdwest&F=&S=&P=2372   (450 words)

  
 Tufted Duck Male - Whatbird.com
Tufted Duck Male: Medium-sized diving duck with long fl crest and dull fl back and tail.
Tufted Duck Male: Breeds across Eurasia from Iceland and the British Isles east across Russia and Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Commander Islands; breeding has not been reported in North America, but are casual visitors on northern coasts during migration.
● Breeding and nesting: Tufted Duck Male: Seven to ten yellow, brown, or green eggs are laid in a small ground hollow lined with grass and down, usually hidden in reeds or under bushes near water.
identify.whatbird.com /obj/420/_/Tufted_Duck_Male.aspx   (417 words)

  
 Tufted Duck Female - Whatbird.com
Tufted Duck Female: Medium-sized diving duck with long fl crest and dull fl back and tail.
Tufted Duck Female: Breeds across Eurasia from Iceland and the British Isles east across Russia and Siberia to the Kamchatka Peninsula and the Commander Islands; breeding has not been reported in North America, but are casual visitors on northern coasts during migration.
● Breeding and nesting: Tufted Duck Female: Seven to ten yellow, brown, or green eggs are laid in a small ground hollow lined with grass and down, usually hidden in reeds or under bushes near water.
identify.whatbird.com /obj/382/_/Tufted_Duck_Female.aspx   (419 words)

  
 Aythya hybrid from Long Island, New York
Initially reported to the local RBA as a Tufted Duck - with the caveat that it had a short tuft.
However, the odd shape of the tuft and the dense vermiculations on the mantle creating the impression of a dark gray rather fl back seem to rule out this species.
Indeed he states that "mixed trait birds seen occasionally in North America are usually taken to be Tufted x Greater Scaup, and most of these birds are probably true vagrants." He attributes this frequency to overlapping breeding ranges in Siberia and the Kamchatka Peninsula as well as in Iceland.
www.oceanwanderers.com /Aythyahybrid.html   (1049 words)

  
 Tufted Ducks   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
I have only seen one Tufted Duck here which showed an extensively green sheen and it was a hybrid with a Ring-necked Duck!
I have also seen individuals start out with a long tuft and later in the season show a shorter one, probably caused by breakage or wear.
Pair of Tufted Ducks at Lake Merritt, Oakland.
home.pacbell.net /robbie22/tudu/tudu.htm   (217 words)

  
 Encyclopedia Corviniana - S to W   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
At any given time, there can be 73 members of the order: the Grand Tufted Duck (which office was initially given to Prince Lucas), eight Knights Commander of the Tufted Duck (abbrev.
KCTD), and sixty-four Knights of the Tufted Duck (abbrev.
For the duration of the minority of the Grand Tufted Duck, the duties of the office are assumed by a Warden (initially HCH Prince Peter I Ravn).
www.corvinia.org /minedu/enc-cor/ec-sw.html   (707 words)

  
 Travel - Britain - Day Walks 2004 - Ducks of St James's Park
A male tufted duck drifts across the water.
A female tufted duck wears its winter feathers.
A female tufted duck swims across the water.
www.markhorrell.com /travel/britain/2004/ind_ducks.html   (83 words)

  
 TUFTED DUCK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Length: he Tufted Duck is 1-2 feet long!
Wingspan: The wingspan of a tufted duck is is 2-3 feet!?!
Habitat: The tufted duck lives in fresh water it is a diving duck..
www.gri.sd83.bc.ca /animals/dnkd/tuftedduck.htm   (120 words)

  
 Tufted Ducks - Aythya fuligula - UK Safari
Special features: Tufted ducks are diving birds, which travel south from Iceland, N.W. Russia and Scandinavia to spend the winter here in Britain where it's a little warmer.
These ducks have a very broad bill, almost as wide as the Shoveler.
Only the males have the distinctive head crest, the females are brown with pale sides.
www.uksafari.com /tuftedduck.htm   (114 words)

  
 THE OTTER SIDE - Waterfowl Images   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Although this Muscovy Duck shows all the field marks of a wild bird, it is assumed to be a feral bird descended from domestic stock.
This female Ruddy Duck was photographed on a lake in the foothills near Arroyo Grande, California.
This Spot-billed Duck was photographed in a small pond on the grounds of the Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.
www.otterside.com /htmfiles/fowl5.htm   (331 words)

  
 No. AZ Audubon Forum - Possible Tufted Duck on Ashurst - Powered by XMB
The head was round and uniformly dark with no indication of white feathering near the bill, which was a very pale blue/gray color with a dark nail.
There was a very small, but discernible tuft near the back of it's head and the eye was yellow.
I first saw the duck while I was on the southern end of the lake, and decided that I would have a better view of it at the boat launch.
nazas.org /sightings/viewthread.php?tid=838   (309 words)

  
 Aythya fuligula
The male Tufted Duck is distinctively all-fl apart from his immaculately neat white flanks, yellow eye and grey bill.
She usually shows at least the beginnings of a tuft at the back of the head.
In flight, Tufteds have very dark wings with a broad white bar across the flight feathers.
www.birdguides.com /html/vidlib/species/Aythya_fuligula.htm   (223 words)

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