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Genus: Oxyura (6 species)

Genus Oxyura, Stiff-tailed Ducks are small diving ducks with a characteristic shape and stiff tails. Oxyura ducks dive for crustaceans.


Blue-billed Duck (Oxyura australis) Male Range: AU: sw WA, sw QLD to s VIC and se SA and Tasmania (sw, se Australia) Lithgow, NSW, Australia
Photograph by Chris Charles © All Rights Reserved.


Blue-billed Duck (Oxyura australis) Female Range: AU: sw WA, sw QLD to s VIC and se SA and Tasmania (sw, se Australia) Penrith, New South Wales, Australia
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Andean Duck (Oxyura ferruginea) Male Range: SA: Colombia to Southern Cone Bogota, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Andean Duck (Oxyura ferruginea) Female Range: SA: Colombia to Southern Cone Bogota, Colombia
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.

Most closely related to the migratory North American Ruddy Duck. Male Andean Ducks in Colombia may have a cheek colored white, black or some combination of white and black, indicating some past hybridization.
A male with white cheek.
Juvenile


Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) Male Range: NA, MA: s Canada, USA and West Indies Sanibel Island, Florida,
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) Female Range: NA, MA: s Canada, USA and West Indies San Diego River, California, USA
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White-headed Duck (Oxyura leucocephala) Endangered Range: PAL: s Europe and n Africa to c Asia and nw China Miami Zoo, Miami, Florida, USA
Photograph by Tom Friedel © All Rights Reserved.


Maccoa Duck (Oxyura maccoa) Male Endangered Range: AF: Ethiopia to South Africa South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Maccoa Duck (Oxyura maccoa) Female Endangered Range: AF: Ethiopia to South Africa South Africa
Photograph by Graham Searll © All Rights Reserved.


Lake Duck (Oxyura vittata) Male Range: SA: Southern Cone
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Lake Duck (Oxyura vittata) Female Range: SA: Southern Cone
Photograph by Georg Sander Copyright and usage info This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution ShareAlike 4.0 License. You are free to copy, distribute and transmit the work, and to adapt the work under the following conditions: You must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author or licensor (but not in any way that suggests that they endorse you or your use of the work) If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one.

© Tom Friedel - All Rights Reserved, except for images and data otherwise noted.       Colombia       Panama       Ecuador       Costa Rica       Mexico
Experimental sites:       Peru       Venezuela       The World       Brazil       Bolivia
Really Experimental sites:       Guyana       Cuba