Birds: Ducks

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Garganey

The Garganey (Anas querquedula) is a migratory bird that breeds locally throughout most of the Western Palearctic and winters in northern tropical areas of East and West Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia.

The Garganey lives of insects, crustaceans, molluscs, seeds and aquatic plants. Above all, the Garganey prefer animal food. The birds take their food directly from surface or shallow subsurface.

Tufted Duck

The Tufted Duck ( Aythya fuligula) is a diving duck. The Tufted Duck breeds across temperate and northern Eurasia. These ducks are mostly migratory and winter in the milder south and west of Europe, southern Asia and all year in most of the United Kingdom.

The bird breeds close to marshes and lakes with plenty of vegetation to conceal the nest.

These birds feed mainly by diving, but they will dabble. They eat molluscs, aquatic insects and some plants.

Mallard

The Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is widely distributed across the Northern Hemisphere.

Mallard may occur as a breeding bird in almost any type of water at any time like small forest swamps, lakes, rivers, parks, in brackish and salt water.

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Ruddy Duck

The ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) is a duck from North America and the Andes Mountains of South America, one of the stiff-tailed ducks.

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Scoter

Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra) nest in the northern regions of Europe and western Asia. The American Melanitta americana (Black Scoter) is sometimes considered a subspecies of Melanitta nigra.

Red-crested pochard

The red-crested pochard (Netta rufina) breeding habitat is lowland marshes and lakes in southern Europe and Central Asia, wintering in the Indian Subcontinent and Africa. It is somewhat migratory, and northern birds winter further south into north Africa.

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Ruddy shelduck

The ruddy shelduck (Tadorna ferruginea), known in India as the Brahminy duck, is a migratory bird, wintering in the Indian subcontinent and breeding in southeastern Europe and central Asia, though there are small resident populations in North Africa.

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King eider

The king eider (Somateria spectabilis) breeds along Northern Hemisphere Arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America and Asia.

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Long-tailed Duck

Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) nests in Iceland, Scandinavia, Svalbard, Novaya Zemlya, Russia, Greenland, Canada and Alaska. It is a migratory bird that in winter moves to marine coastal environments such as the Baltic Sea, along the coast of the northern Great Britain, Sweden's west coast, Norway, China, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, and North America.

Red-breasted Merganser

Red breasted merganser

The Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) has a similar distribution as then common merganser which is a circumpolar distribution ranging from North America, South Greenland, northern Europe and Scandinavia, and eastwards throughout northern and central Asia.

Common Pochard

The Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) breed in Europe and Asia east to Japan. The northern populations are migratory birds and the birds spend the winter as far south as tropical Africa, India and Southeast Asia.

Green-Winged Teal

The green-winged teal (Anas carolinensis or Anas crecca carolinensis) is a common and widespread duck that breeds in the northern areas of North America except on the Aleutian Islands.

Goldeneye

The Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) nest in the taiga region in Scandinavia, northern Russia, Canada and northern United States.

Eurasian Wigeon

Wigeon

The Eurasian Wigeon (Anas penelope) , also known as Widgeon, breeds in the northernmost areas of Europe and Asia.

Steller's Eider

The Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri) is a smallish sea duck that breeds along the Arctic coasts of eastern Siberia and Alaska.

Hottentot Teal

The Hottentot teal (Anas hottentota) is a duck from eastern and southern Africa.

Teal

Teal (Anas crecca) occurs in most of Europe and in the temperate part of Asia and in North America.

Eider

The Eider (Somateria mollissima) nests in Europe on the coast of Iceland, northern Britain, Norway, Netherlands, Germany, the Baltic States, Sweden and Finland and in parts of Denmark. In France it is rare. Further east the eider nests along the coasts around the Arctic Ocean, the Pacific and at the North American and Greenland coasts. Overwintering occurs in the southern Baltic Sea, around the Danish islands and the North Sea.

Shelduck

The Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) occurs along the coasts in most of Europe and the temperate parts of Asia.

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