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Duck There are 9 species in the genus Dendrocygna which has a worldwide distribution through the tropics and subtropics, and a single diving species, Thalassornis leuconotus the White-backed Duck[?] of Africa, which is difficult to classify and has often been placed in the Oxyurinae (which it resembles in morphology and feeding habits). Ducks are mostly aquatic birds, smaller than their relatives the swans or geese, found in both fresh and salt water. Ducks should not be confused with several types of unrelated birds with similar forms, such as loons or divers, grebes, gallinules, and coots[?]. www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/du/Duck.html   (509 words)

White-backed Duck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia White-backed Ducks live in southern Africa, especially between Senegal and Chad in the west and Ethiopia and South Africa in the east. The White-backed Duck (Thalassornis leuconotus) is a waterbird of the family Anatidae. It is distinct from all other ducks, but most closely related to the whistling ducks in the subfamily Dendrocygninae, though also showing some similarities to the stiff-tailed ducks in the subfamily Oxyurinae (family Anatidae). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Thalassornis   (189 words)

wild ducks in africa A good variety of ducks are to be seen in and around the natural pans of Phinda Private Game Reserve in South Africa, with white-faced whistling duck, white-backed duck, pygmy goose and red-billed teal among those frequently present. Ducks (except for the whistling ducks), on the other hand, have horizontal plates or scales on the tarsus, and many species have iridescent feathers on the wing. The impressive knob-billed duck is also known as the comb duck, and both names are derived from the strange fleshy swelling which sits - and grows - upon the male's bill. www.wildwatch.com /resources/birds/ducks.asp   (1101 words)

ipedia.com: Anatidae Article Anatidae is the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swan. The dabbling duck group, of worldwide distribution, were previously restricted to just one or two genera, but has now been extended to include 10 genera and about 55 species, including several genera formerly known as the "perching ducks": Duck, eider and goose feathers and down have long been popular for bedspreads, pillows, sleeping bags and coats. www.ipedia.com /anatidae.html   (614 words)

REVIEWS More than a third of the 148 photographs are in color and several, such as the Comb Duck, White-faced Whistling Duck, and Red-crested Pochard (to mention a few) are striking and quite beautiful. As the name "tree duck" is almost universally used in North American publications, Johnsgard might have at least mentioned in his world list of anatids that the name "tree duck" is an important and widely used synonym for the whistling ducks. Since "laymen," with regard to waterfowl, comprise such diverse groups as seasoned duck hunters, wildlife technicians, and week-end birdwatchers, it is perhaps a little unfair for a reviewer to be too categorical in defining what is appropriate to include in a book of this sort. elibrary.unm.edu /sora/Auk/v087n01/p0175-p0185.html   (11244 words)

Kamusi - Search Results duck, pl ducks { Swahili: bata, pl mabata } Matokeo kwa 'duck' yaonyeshwa kama waliorodheshwa na mshiriki wa Kamusi Hai. The results for 'duck' are displayed below as they have been grouped and ranked by a Kamusi Project participant. research.yale.edu /cgi-bin/swahili/lookup.cgi?Word=duck&EngP=1   (523 words)

Harteman Wildfowl - White-backed duck These ducks live in watersheds and lakes where vegetation is not too dense. The white back can only be seen in flight. These ducks have long been regarded as Stiff-tailed ducks. www.harteman.nl /omnibus/anseriformes/ducks/whitebacked.html   (244 words)

BIRDCHAT archives -- April 1999, week 4 (#152) We slowly wandered back to the car and, just as we were thinking of giving up, we located 1 Cape Griffon flying fairly purposefully along the ridge line. The main reason for heading back towards Malgas was to visit an area of farmland where Callan was previously found a recent splits, Agulhas Long-billed Lark (see taxonomic note). When we got back to the Bredasdorp road, we turned right towards Potberg, stopping on the way to pick up a Grassveld Pipit, 2 Jackal Buzzards, 4 Orange-throated Longclaws and a flock of Yellow Canaries. listserv.arizona.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9904d&L=birdchat&F=&S=&P=11073   (2271 words)

Checklist of the birds of eastern Congo TUFTED DUCK Aythya fuligula - One observation known in eastern Congo, from Buta in the northeast. MACCOA DUCK Oxyura maccoa - Local and uncommon in the Lake Kivu area, mainly in the Masisi mountains. YELLOW-BILLED DUCK Anas undulata undulata - Uncommon, Lake Tanganyika to Lake Albert. www.tommy777.addr.com /Eastcongo-list.htm   (9338 words)

Birdquest, Trip Report As we arrived there were two African Cuckoo-Hawks displaying close by, and the wetland itself gave us the magnificent African Pygmy Goose, White-backed Duck (including in flight showing the back), African Jacana, African Swamphen, and Squacco and Purple Heron. Late morning we were back at Nylsvley where we added Great Spotted Cuckoo, Yellow-fronted Tinkerbird, Red-breasted Swallow, Kalahari Scrub-Robin, Willow Warbler, White-bellied Sunbird, the gorgeous Blue Waxbill, and Streaky-headed Seedeater. Two male Neergaard's Sunbirds were the first targets to fall, followed by Fan-tailed Flycatcher on the nest, Bateleur, White-headed and Lappet-faced Vultures, a very co-operative pair of White-browed Robin-Chats, Red-faced Cisticola, Wahlberg's Eagle on the nest, Grey-headed Bush-Shrike, and the mind-blowing and very secretive Gorgeous Bush-Shrike. www.birdquest.co.uk /trip_reports_detail.cfm?ReportID=319   (5742 words)

Articles - Anseriformes All Anseriformes have this basic structure, but many have subsequently adopted alternative feeding strategies: geese graze on plants, the saw-billed ducks catch fish; even the screamers, which have bills that seem on first sight more like those of the game birds, still have vestigal lamellae. Subfamily Oxyurinae: 8 species of stiff-tail ducks and allies. The combination of the internal shape of the bill and a modified tongue acts as a suction pump to draw water in at the tip of the bill and expel it from the sides and rear; an array of fine filter plates called lamellae traps small particles, which are then licked off and swallowed. www.bird-center.net /articles/Anseriformes   (375 words)

kenya2003.txt Returning to the road back to Nairobi, we made one final stop at a roadside lake with a number of ducks on it, including White-backed Duck and Maccoa Duck, which were both new for the tour. Back in the park we saw many mammals again, including African Elephant, and several birds were seen well despite the wind, including Hamerkop, Black-bellied Bustard, Wattled Lapwing, Grey-backed Fiscal and Black-shouldered Kite. Back on to the bumpy, dusty road heading south, but this time we made several stops to see both Chestnut-headed and Fischer's Sparrow-larks. www.birdfinders.co.uk /text-only/kenya2003.txt   (6731 words)

South Africa Trip Report Ducks and waders mingled with Glossy Ibis, Spoonbills and a flock of Greater and Lesser Flamingoes. Grebes, gallinules, ibis, waders, ducks and herons abounded. Cattle, Little, Intermediate and Great White Egret were mixed in with Grey, Purple, Black-headed and Black-crowned Night Herons. www.naturalist.co.uk /reports2000/southafrica.htm   (6154 words)

White-Headed Duck Wintering populations of the globally significant white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala) have decreased significantly in number during the last few years, with only an estimated 50 birds remaining. As part of this plan, WWF-P plans to establish a model wetland site at Ucchali Complex for the conservation of the white-headed duck. Ucchali is a series of lakes and associated wetlands in the Salt Range. www.wwfpak.org /sc_whiteheadduck.php   (143 words)

International Zoo News Vol 47/7 The birth of a white rhinoceros calf in early February was the highlight of 1999. The foliage emerges in spring and the white blooms tend to appear in June. The sides and back half of the body are covered with stout, cylindrical quills which can sometimes be as long as 350 mm. www.zoonews.ws /IZN/304/IZN-304.html   (20239 words)

Birdwatching East Africa Early morning birdwalk and an afternoon birdwalk supplemented by the Syke's, and the Black and White Colubus Monkeys. Despite late morning we had a good number of local specialties such as the Jackson’s Hornbill, White-faced Scops Owl, Slender-tailed Nightjars, Heuglin’s Courser, Bristled-crowned Starling, a white morph of the African Paradise Flycatcher, Black-throated Barbet, Brubru, Masai Ostrich and others. After this we headed back to Nairobi where the tour ended late in the evening with a transfer to the airport. www.birdwatchingkenya.com /tour_report.htm   (1122 words)

The page cannot be found Click the Back button to try another link. HTTP Error 404 - File or directory not found. If you reached this page by clicking a link, contact the Web site administrator to alert them that the link is incorrectly formatted. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/w/wh/white-backed_duck.htm   (121 words)

KENYA ITINERARY Watch for White-faced Whistling-Duck, the local White-backed Duck, Spur-winged Goose, Whiskered Tern, African Jacana, Purple Swamphen, herons, egrets, shorebirds, and maybe even a few raptors overhead. We will arrive in the late afternoon, maybe in time for a brief look for African Black Duck or Mountain Wagtail which feed in the cold, fast-flowing water. Back at the lodge watch for Water Thick-knee, Red-billed Hornbill, Grey-headed Kingfisher, Rufous Chatterer, Spotted Mourning Thrush, Eurasian migrants including flocks of Eurasian Hobby, both Nightingale and Thrush-Nightingale, Upcher's and Olivaceous Warblers, and Spotted Flycatcher. www.birdtreks.com /itin/keea04.html   (3394 words)

Indicator Birding - Eastern South Africa in Autumn. An extended drive around the reserve produced ahost of new birds, including African Firefinch, Malachite Kingfisher, Comb Duck, Black Indigobird, White-winged Widow and Gorgeous Bush-Shrike. After lunch on the ranch, we headed south towards Memel, and once through the traffic of Gauteng, traveled the open roads of southern gauteng and Free state, with fields of maize and roadsides ablaze with the pink, white and purple Cosmos flowers. On the way back down the pass, we had superb close up views of a covey of Grey-winged Francolin, and excellent views of a pair of Drakensburg Prinia, and were able to compare them with the Karoo Prinia of the dry country on the other side of the watershed. www.birding.co.za /news27.htm   (2918 words)

Tropical Birding Tour Report - Eastern South Africa - Sep-Oct 2002 An incredibly cold group of White Helmetshrike’s, hopelessly out of place, were snapping up anything that moved in a desperate attempt to warm their bodies, more used to subtropical climates. Birding the wetlands was very productive and a lot of fun and we added a host of commoner species as well as African Quailfinch, African Marsh Warbler, Yellow Warbler, White-throated Swallow, SA Cliff Swallow, African Marsh Harrier, Hottentot Teal and Malachite Kingfisher. On the way back to camp we made a quick stop at Nsumo Pan, picking up Comb Duck, African Jacana and Water Dikkop. www.tropicalbirding.com /tripReports/TR_ESAMartin.html   (11916 words)

TWSG News 13 - Editorial Nancy Drilling continues her ground-breaking work on White-winged Duck in Sumatra and we include important contributions on the status and distribution of threatened waterfowl from Africa, Eastern Europe, Russia and various CIS countries. The participants of the workshop on White-headed Duck conservation and reintroduction held in Italy in May 2001 kindly allowed us to publish their workshop contributions. This includes ongoing support for White-headed Duck, Marbled Teal, Ferruginous Duck, and White-winged Duck, and a major new initiative with BirdLife International to save the Brazilian Merganser. www.wwt.org.uk /threatsp/twsg/bulletins/13/editorial.htm   (819 words)

::KIBRAN TOUR & TRAVEL ETHIOPIA:: Before lunch there is a stoppage at Chalaklaka wetland in Debre-Zeit The white backed Duck, Knob-billed Duck, Tufted Duck, Little stint, African spoon bill, Yellow billed stork, common and crowned cranes, White-winged Black Tern, Dark chanting Goshawk, Lesser spotted Eagle, Lesser Masked Weaver, Red throated pipit and some others are expected to be seen. The White-backed Duck, Tufted Duck, little stint, Ruff, African Spoon bill, Yellow billed stork, Common and crowned cranes, White-winged Black Tern and others are expect to be seen. The African-black Duck, Ortolan bunting, Red-breasted Wheatear, Three-banded plover; African Marsh Harrier and African Fish Eagle are one of the species that we do see this afternoon. www.kibrantour.com /italiano/bird.htm   (1085 words)

southafrica Black Egret, Lesser Moorhen, Lesser Jacana, African Pygmy-Goose, White-backed Duck, the magnificent Pel’s Fishing Owl, Red-headed Quelea and Southern Brown-throated Weaver are all possible. We will also bird at some pans (temporary wetlands) looking for Cape Shoveler, Maccoa Duck and African Snipe. Leaving Muzi we will make our way back to the main coastal road and down to the village of St Lucia, nestled on the shores of a lake of the same name and part of a world heritage site. www.born2bird.com /southafrica.htm   (3678 words)

Birdwatching Trip Report from Lesser and Greater Flamingo, and White Pelican breed in large numbers on the Makgadikgadi Pans when conditions are suitable - such as after the rich rainy season of 1999-2000, when more than 200,000 flamingos concentrated to breed in shallow saline lake formed on the pans. Constructed in 1990, Phakalane is now one of the most important wetlands for waterbirds (notably Maccoa Duck) in southeast Botswana: 70 species of waterbirds are recorded here; among them 11 species of herons and bitterns, 16 species of ducks and geese, 7 rails and 17 species of waders. At the dam itself, 71 waterbird species are recorded, among them 13 species of herons and bitterns, 4 storks, 10 ducks and geese, 4 rails and 20 waders. www.birdtours.co.uk /tripreports/botswana/gaborone/Gaborone.htm   (3784 words)

The Beach Club - Bird Watching - Site Descriptions. African Pgymy Goose, White-backed Duck, Madagascar Squacco Heron, Carmine Bee-eater. Another freshwater lake surrounded by coastal scrub good for ducks, herons, marsh terns and migrating bee-eaters. Freshwater lakes surrounded by coastal scrub good for ducks, herons, marsh terns and migrating bee-eaters. www.turtlebay.co.ke /arabuko-sokoke-forest.htm   (365 words)

International Zoo News Vol. 47/4 (No. 301) June 2000 Among the numerous WCS projects in Asia are studies of elephants, orang-utans and white-winged ducks in Sumatra, tigers in northern China, the Russian Far East, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and India, coral bleaching and mortality (associated with global warming) in the Maldives, and ungulates and large carnivores in the Nepal Himalayas and south-eastern Tibet. Noteworthy breeding successes in the bird section were: 2 Dalmatian pelican, 1 white pelican, 1 goliath heron, 2 waldrapp, 1 bearded vulture, 1 hooded vulture, 2 red-crowned crane and 3 hyacinth macaw. The nest was hung at the back of the breeding compartment (away from the passageway). www.zoonews.ws /IZN/301/IZN-301.htm   (19959 words)

Kenya 1981 trip list One seen most days in the Kakamega Forest; white eye is an important character. Back in 1981, we used Williams (1967) and Halternorth and Diller (1977, 1980) in the field. The first of these days was an all-day drive through Tsavo East NP (2 new species only), then three days birding on the coast, and a travel day by air back to Nairobi. montereybay.com /creagrus/Kenya1981list.html   (9093 words)

Webskenya::Kenya's information source. The dry north western part of the reserve is covered by a low dense and often almost impenetrable cynometra thicket with vegetation mainly comprising a thick shrub and sapling tangle from 3m to 6m tall with emergent trees (10m) of Brachylaena hutchinsii (threatened in Kenya); and white soil Cynometra-Afzelia forest, which borders the Cynometra thicket. Brachystegia woodland runs in a strip through the approximate center of the forest on white, very infertile soil. Most of the park is covered by bush, thornbush and wooded grassland of varying densities with Combretum prevailing in the north and Commiphora in the south. www.webskenya.com /national_parks.htm   (12137 words)

birdspots Ander watervoëls sluit in Knobbeleend (Knobbilled Duck), Fluiteend (Fulvous Duck), Gevlekte Eend (Hottentot Teal), beide famink spesies (veral in droë jare wanneer watervlakke laag is), Bont Elsie (Avocet), Rooipootelsie (Blackwinged Stilt) en Reuse Sterretjie (Caspian Tern), wat veral in bo-lope agter die Leeukamp gesien word. Most of the duck species are recorded regularly, with Knob-billed Duck (Knobbeleend) and Southern Pochard (Bruineend) occurring less frequently, although sometimes in good numbers. Species present in the reserve include white rhino, giraffe, buffalo, eland, sable antelope, roan antelope, red hartebeest, tsessebe, kudu, blue wildebeest, Buchell's zebra, springbok and a number of other species. www.nasmus.co.za /ornithol/FSBC/birdspots.html   (1984 words)

The Fest Ethiopia Travel & Tour Plc Day 3: Leave Addis Ababa early in the morning to Chalaklaka wetland in Debre-Zeit to see the white backed Duck, Knob-billed Duck, Tufted Duck, Little stint, African spoon bill, Yellow billed stork, common and crowned cranes, White-winged Black Tern, Dark chanting Goshawk, have a short stop at Lake Hora for more birding viewing. Magpie starling, White crowned Starling, Dodson’s Bulbul, Eastern black headed Oriole, African Goshawk, Pearl Spotted owlet, tiny cist cola and Pringle’s puff back are some of the species we are coming across along the roadsides Day 9: Drive back to the Rift valley - Awassa for the two nights staying, late afternoon birding around the hotel garden and along the lake Shore. www.festethiopia.com /birdwatch.htm   (789 words)

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