American Black Duck vs Spectacled Eider

Anas rubripes เปรียบเทียบกับ Somateria fischeri

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Side-by-Side Comparison

คุณสมบัติ American Black Duck Spectacled Eider
ชื่อวิทยาศาสตร์ Anas rubripes Somateria fischeri
อันดับ Anseriformes Anseriformes
วงศ์ตระกูล Anatidae Anatidae
สถานะการอนุรักษ์ Least Concern Near Threatened
ความยาว
กว้างปีก 53.4 cm (21.0 in) 49.2 cm (19.4 in)
น้ำหนัก 1211.25 g (42.73 oz) 1443.75 g (50.93 oz)
อาหาร Eats fish and aquatic invertebrates; dives in coastal and freshwater habitats; diet shifts toward molluscs … Dives for bivalves, crustaceans, and aquatic insects in shallow Arctic coastal and freshwater habitats. Insects …
จำนวนไข่ 1-17 1-9
Population Trend
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Habitat Comparison

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American Black Duck only

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American Black Duck

Freshwater and brackish wetlands in eastern North America from Atlantic Canada south along the coast to Georgia. Breeds in northern bogs and wetlands. Winters on coastal marshes, estuaries, and freshwater lakes.

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Song & Call Comparison

American Black Duck

เสียงร้อง

Female produces a loud, deep quacking series; male gives a low, raspy grunt. Voice is deeper and huskier than a Mallard; pairs call powerfully across northeastern North American wetlands.

Spectacled Eider

เสียงร้อง

Male gives a low, melodious aah-ooo cooing; female produces a guttural, grunting call. The male's ghostly, organ-like cooing call carries across Arctic tundra ponds in the breeding season.

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Geographic Range & Migration

American Black Duck

Breeds in the steppe zone of Central Asia; winters in South Asia, East Africa, and coastal Southeast Asia.

Spectacled Eider

Breeds on coastal tundra of western and northern Alaska. Winters along the Bering Sea coast from Alaska to Kamchatka. Largely sedentary.

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สถานะการอนุรักษ์

Least Concern

American Black Duck

Near Threatened

Spectacled Eider

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How to Tell Them Apart

American Black Duck

ขนนก

Sooty dark brown body; head and neck paler buff with dark streaking. Iridescent purple speculum without white border. Males have yellow-green bill; females olive with orange blotches. Silvery underwings in …

Spectacled Eider

ขนนก

Male has white back and black breast with pale sage-green head framed by large white goggle-like spectacles edged black. Female mottled tawny-brown with faint spectacle outline.

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About These Birds

American Black Duck

A large dark brown dabbling duck closely resembling a very dark female Mallard, with purple speculum, yellowish-olive bill in males, and orange legs. Common in eastern North America. Hybridizes freely with Mallard; pure populations declining in the interior.

Spectacled Eider

A medium-large sea duck of the family Anatidae, weighing ~1.4 kg with distinctive pale green goggles in males. Breeds on Arctic tundra of Alaska and Russia; winters in pack ice of the Bering Sea. Dives for benthic invertebrates and mollusks. Near Threatened due to population declines linked to lead poisoning and habitat change.

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