American Black Duck vs Garganey

Anas rubripes 对比 Spatula querquedula

Side-by-Side Comparison

属性 American Black Duck Garganey
学名 Anas rubripes Spatula querquedula
Anseriformes Anseriformes
Anatidae Anatidae
保护状况 Least Concern Least Concern
体长
翼展 53.4 cm (21.0 in) 37.6 cm (14.8 in)
体重 1211.25 g (42.73 oz) 401.25 g (14.15 oz)
食性 -- Eats seeds, plant matter, and aquatic invertebrates; dabbles in shallow wetlands; diet shifts toward invertebrates …
产卵数 1-17 6-14
Population Trend

Habitat Comparison

共同栖息地

American Black Duck only

Garganey only

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.

Garganey

Breeds on freshwater marshes, flooded meadows, and lake margins in Eurasia from Europe east to Siberia. Winters across sub-Saharan Africa, the Indian subcontinent, and Southeast Asia in wetlands of all kinds.

Song & Call Comparison

American Black Duck

鸣唱

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.

Garganey

鸣唱

Male produces a distinctive mechanical rattle or craking sound; female gives a subdued quack. The rattling male call is unlike any other teal and immediately diagnostic.

Geographic Range & Migration

American Black Duck

Garganey

Breeds across the Palearctic; winters from western Europe and North Africa east through South Asia to Southeast Asia.

保护状况

Least Concern

American Black Duck

Least Concern

Garganey

How to Tell Them Apart

American Black Duck

羽毛

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 …

Garganey

羽毛

Breeding males have chocolate-brown head with sweeping white supercilium. Blue-gray forewing; green speculum with white border. Gray flanks with white vermiculations. Females brown with white loral stripe.

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.

Garganey

白眉鸭是欧亚大陆常见的小型水面鸭,以雄鸟宽阔的白色眉纹为特征,体羽棕灰色,翼镜绿色。繁殖于欧洲和亚洲温带地区,越冬于非洲、印度和东南亚,是长途迁徙鸟类。栖息于草原和湿地,以水生植物和无脊椎动物为食,迁徙期间常在稻田集群。

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