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The Eurasian wigeon is a bird of open wetlands, such as wet grassland or marshes with some taller vegetation, and usually feeds by dabbling for plant food or grazing, which it does very readily. It nests on the ground, near water and under cover. It is highly gregarious outside of the breeding season and will form large flocks.
The American wigeon was formerly called the baldpate by ornithologists, and some people still use that name, especially hunters. The diet of the wigeon consists mainly of grass leaves (~80%), other food types eaten are seeds (~10%) and roots and stems (~5%).
Mareca is a genus or subgenus of ducks in the family Anatidae that includes the wigeons.. The species now placed in this genus were formerly placed in the genus Anas.A molecular phylogentic study comparing mitochondrial DNA sequences published in 2009 found that the genus Anas, as then defined, was not monophyletic. [1]
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Eurasian magpie; Eurasian nuthatch; Eurasian oystercatcher; Eurasian penduline tit; Eurasian scops owl; Eurasian siskin; Eurasian skylark; Eurasian sparrowhawk; Eurasian spoonbill; Eurasian stone-curlew; Eurasian teal; Eurasian three-toed woodpecker; Eurasian tree sparrow; Eurasian treecreeper; Eurasian whimbrel; Eurasian wigeon; Eurasian ...
The northern pintail is one of the species to which the Agreement on the Conservation of African-Eurasian Migratory Waterbirds applies, [39] but it has no special status under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora , which regulates international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants.
Ever since the movie "Jaws" popularized great white sharks as predatory man-killers, people have had misconceptions about these animals. That is why researchers have been doing everything they can ...
Eurasian wigeon: Mareca penelope (Linnaeus, 1758) 90 Chiloe wigeon: Mareca sibilatrix (Poeppig, 1829) 91 American wigeon: Mareca americana (Gmelin, JF, 1789) 92 Amsterdam wigeon: Mareca marecula (Olson & Jouventin, 1996) (E) 93 African black duck: Anas sparsa Eyton, 1838: 94 Yellow-billed duck: Anas undulata Dubois, CF, 1838: 95 Meller's duck ...