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The female is light brown, with plumage much like a female American wigeon. It can be distinguished from most other ducks, apart from American wigeon, on shape. However, that species has a paler head and white axillaries on its underwing. The female can be a rufous morph with a redder head, and a gray morph with a more gray head. [7]
Male (front) and female (rear) American wigeons. Male (rear) and female (front) Chiloé wigeons. There are three extant species: the Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope), the American wigeon (M. americana) and the Chiloé wigeon (M. sibilatrix). A fourth species, the Amsterdam wigeon (Mareca marecula), became extinct in the 19th century.
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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]
Eurasian wigeon, Anas penelope; American wigeon, Anas americana; American black duck, ... The female is the brighter of the sexes and initiates courtship. The male ...
Eurasian wigeon, Mareca penelope; ... As with many galliform species, the female (the hen) is smaller and much less colorful than the male (the tom). With wingspans ...
Category: Wigeons. 2 languages. ... Eurasian wigeon; W. Wigeon This page was last edited on 1 August 2011, at 11:10 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
The buttonquail are small, drab, running birds which resemble the true quails. The female is the brighter of the sexes and initiates courtship. The male incubates the eggs and tends the young. Small buttonquail, Turnix sylvatica; Spotted buttonquail, Turnix ocellata (E) Barred buttonquail, Turnix suscitator; Luzon buttonquail, Turnix worcesteri (E)