Ducks and Geese
Order: Anseriformes. Family: Anatidae
The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These are birds that are modified for an aquatic existence with webbed feet, flattened bills and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to an oily coating.
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor (A)
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons (A)
- Snow Goose Chen caerulescens (A)
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- American Wigeon Anas americana
- Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (A)
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
- Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera
- Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris (A)
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus (A)
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator (A)
- Masked Duck Nomonyx dominica
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“The only ones who are really grateful for the war are the wild ducks, such a lot of them in the marshes of the Rhone and so peaceful ... because all the shot-guns have been taken away completely taken away and nobody can shoot with them nobody at all and the wild ducks are very content. They act as of they had never been shot at, never, it is so easy to form old habits again, so very easy.”
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“Not a flock of wild geese cackles over our town, but it to some extent unsettles the value of real estate here, and, if I were a broker, I should probably take that disturbance into account.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)