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The garganey (Spatula querquedula) is a small dabbling duck.It breeds in much of Europe and across the Palearctic, but is strictly migratory, with the entire population moving to Africa, India (in particular Santragachi), Bangladesh (in the natural reservoirs of Sylhet district) and Australasia during the winter of the Northern hemisphere, [2] where large flocks can occur.
Garganey Male Female Spatula querquedula (Linnaeus, 1758) Europe and western Asia: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Blue-billed teal Spatula hottentota (Eyton, 1838) eastern and southern Africa, from Sudan and Ethiopia west to Niger and Nigeria and south to South Africa and Namibia Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Puna teal Spatula puna (Tschudi, 1844)
The Drake is part of the most voluminous ocean current in the world, with up to 5,300 million cubic feet flowing per second. Squeezed into the narrow passage, the current increases, traveling west ...
Fishes that live in the ocean can be carnivores, herbivores, or omnivores. [4] Herbivores in the ocean eat things such as algae and flowering seagrasses. Many herbivores' diets consist of primarily algae. Most saltwater fish will eat both macroalgae and microalgae. Many fish eat red, green, brown, and blue algae, but some fish prefer other types.
The 'Reef' variant of the game dispenses with "The Deep" deck and uses two scenario cards instead. [4] The end of the game is reached once all ocean zones are depopulated of fish. [4] The player with the most collective fish tokens in their score pile and on their species boards wins the game. [4]
Since 1990, over 100 countries have allowed people to eat up to 87 marine mammal species, including Indo-Pacific humpback dolphins [1] Marine mammals are a food source in many countries around the world. Historically, they were hunted by coastal people, and in the case of aboriginal whaling, still are.
The Lisbon Oceanarium in Portugal has ocean sunfish showcased in the main tank, [56] and sunfish are also on display at the Denmark Nordsøen Oceanarium. [57] In Kamogawa Sea World the ocean sunfish named Kukey, who started captivity in 1982, set a world record for captivity for 2,993 days, living for eight years. Kukey was 72 cm (2.36 ft) at ...
The tiny (0.6 μm) marine cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus, discovered in 1986, forms today an important part of the base of the ocean food chain and accounts for much of the photosynthesis of the open ocean [140] and an estimated 20% of the oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere. [141]