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The falcated duck has a large range, with an estimated global extent of occurrence of 1,000,000–10,000,000 km 2 (390,000–3,860,000 sq mi). [ 8 ] The breeding range of the falcated duck is from eastern Siberia and Mongolia to northeastern China and northern Japan with wintering grounds in the northern part of southeast Asia to northeastern ...
Colusa National Wildlife Refuge typically supports wintering populations of more than 200,000 ducks and 50,000 geese. Wetland impoundments are intensively managed to provide optimal habitat for the dense concentration of wintering waterfowl, as well as habitat for resident wildlife and spring/summer migrants.
The California quail is the official state bird of California. This list of birds of California is a comprehensive listing of all the bird species seen naturally in the U.S. state of California as determined by the California Bird Records Committee (CBRC). [1] Additional accidental and hypothetical species have been added from different sources.
The "Duck Savior" has sacrificed his marriage, his job and soon, his house, all for the purpose of saving ducks across California. This Riverside County man is on a mission to save California's ...
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]
The first outbreak of H5N9 bird flu was reported in poultry on a duck farm in California (AP) Authorities also detected the more common H5N1 strain on the same farm. Nearly 119,000 birds there had ...
A duck hunts near June Lake in Oct. 2024 . At a commercial operation in Merced County, a new strain of bird flu was detected. (David McNew/Getty Images)
The gadwall was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his landmark 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. [3] DNA studies have shown that it is a sister species with the falcated duck; the two are closely related to the three species of wigeons, and all of them have been assigned to the genus Mareca.