Duck swimming in duckweed, a very small light green free-floating, seed bearing plant.
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Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Aperture Value
f/8
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Program
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
165 mm
ISO
200
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/500 sec
Date/Time
Mon 11 Jun 2007 11:35:15 PM EDT
English Fulvous Whistling Duck
Scientific (Dendrocygna bicolor)
Order ANSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Anatidae
Family (English) Ducks, Geese, Swans
Other name(s) Fulvous Duck, Fulvous Whistling-duck, Fulvous Whistling-Duck, Dendrocygne fauve
Breeding Regions NA, MA, SA, AF, OR
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range Subregions
Countries (BETA)map Angola,Anguilla,Argentina,Benin,Bolivia,Botswana,Brazil,British Virgin Islands,Burkina Faso,Burundi, Cameroon,Canada,Cape Verde,Central African Republic,Chad,Colombia,Congo,Costa Rica,Cuba,Democratic Republic of Congo, Djibouti,Dominican Republic,Ecuador - mainland,El Salvador,Equatorial Guinea,Eritrea,Ethiopia,Gabon,Gambia,Ghana, Guinea,Guyana,Haiti,Honduras,India - Andaman and Nicobar Islands,India - mainland,Ivory Coast,Kenya,Lesotho,Madagascar, Malawi,Mali,Mauritania,Mexico,Montserrat,Mozambique,Myanmar,Namibia,Netherlands Antilles,Niger, Nigeria,Pakistan,Paraguay,Peru,Portugal,Rwanda,Sao Tome and Principe,Senegal,Sierra Leone,Somalia, South Africa,South Sudan,Spain,Sri Lanka,Sudan,Suriname,Swaziland,Tanzania,Togo,Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda,United States - mainland,Uruguay,Venezuela,Yemen,Zambia,Zimbabwe,
IOC 13.1 Subspecies Monotypic
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
Described by (Vieillot, 1816)
German Gelbbrust-Pfeifgans
French Dendrocygne fauve
Chinese 茶色树鸭
Japanese アカリュウキュウガモ
Russian Рыжая древесная утка
Spanish Suirirí bicolor
Portuguese dendrocisne-bicolor
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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)