Ducks, Geese and Swans
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
- White-faced Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna viduata (A)
- West Indian Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna arborea
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis (A)
- Snow Goose Chen caerulescens (A)
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis (A)
- Orinoco Goose Neochen jubata (I)
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa (A)
- Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope (A)
- American Wigeon Anas americana
- Gadwall Anas strepera (A)
- Green-winged Teal Anas crecca (A)
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta (A)
- White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis
- Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
- Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata (A)
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria (A)
- Redhead Aythya americana (A)
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris (A)
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis (A)
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus (A)
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator (A)
- Masked Duck Nomonyx dominica
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
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Famous quotes containing the words geese and/or swans:
“As it grew darker, I was startled by the honking of geese flying low over the woods, like weary travellers getting in late from Southern lakes, and indulging at last in unrestrained complaint and mutual consolation. Standing at my door, I could hear the rush of their wings; when, driving toward my house, they suddenly spied my light, and with hushed clamor wheeled and settled in the pond. So I came in, and shut the door, and passed my first spring night in the woods.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke—smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals.”
—Albert Camus (1913–1960)