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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Aperture Value
f/6.3
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Manual
Flash
Compulsory Flash
Focal Length
195 mm
ISO
100
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/200 sec
Date/Time
Wed 21 May 2008 02:51:13 AM EDT
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English White-backed Duck
Scientific (Thalassornis leuconotus)
Order ANSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Anatidae
Family (English) Ducks, Geese, Swans
Other name(s) Canard à dos blanc
Breeding Regions AF
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Benin,Botswana,Burkina Faso,Burundi,Cameroon,Chad,Congo,Democratic Republic of Congo,Djibouti, Ethiopia,Gabon,Guinea-Bissau,Kenya,Lesotho,Madagascar,Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Mozambique, Namibia,Niger,Nigeria,Rwanda,Senegal,Somalia,South Africa,Swaziland,Tanzania,Uganda, Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Breeding Range
leuconotus e Cameroon to s Ethiopia and South Africa
insularis Madagascar
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by Eyton, 1838
German Weißrücken-Pfeifgans
French Dendrocygne à dos blanc
Chinese 白背鸭
Japanese コシジロガモ
Russian Белоспинная утка
Spanish Pato dorsiblanco
Portuguese pato-de-dorso-branco
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Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
PAL Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)