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. There are 18 species which have been recorded in Paraguay.
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- White-faced Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna viduata
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Coscoroba Swan Coscoroba coscoroba
- Orinoco Goose Neochen jubata
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos
- Ringed Teal Callonetta leucophrys
- Brazilian Teal Amazonetta brasiliensis
- White-cheeked Pintail Anas bahamensis
- Silver Teal Anas versicolor
- Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera
- Red Shoveler Anas platalea
- Rosy-billed Pochard Netta peposaca
- Brazilian Merganser Mergus octosetaceus
- Black-headed Duck Heteronetta atricapilla
- Masked Duck Nomonyx dominica
- Lake Duck Oxyura vittata
Read more about this topic: List Of Birds Of Paraguay
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“They yelleden as fiendes doon in hell;
The duckes cryden as men would them quell;
The geese for feare flewen over the trees;
Out of the hive came the swarm of bees.”
—Geoffrey Chaucer (1340?–1400)
“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)