West Indian whistling duck, Bufflehead duck And South Georgia pintail duck

West Indian whistling duck, Bufflehead duck And South Georgia pintail duck


West Indian whistling duck


** The West Indian whistling duck is a whistling duck that breeds in the Caribbean. Alternative names are black-billed whistling duck and Cuban whistling duck. Wikipedia

Scientific name: Dendrocygna arborea

Higher classification: Dendrocygna

Rank: Species


* Bufflehead duck

** The bufflehead is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. This species was first described by Linnaeus in his Systema naturae in 1758 as Anas albeola. Wikipedia

Scientific name: Bucephala albeola

Higher classification: Goldeneye

Rank: Species.


South Georgia pintail duck


** The South Georgia pintail, also misleadingly known as the South Georgian teal, is the nominate subspecies of the yellow-billed pintail, a duck in the dabbling duck subfamily Anatinae. Wikipedia

Scientific name: Anas georgica georgica

Higher classification: Yellow-billed pintail

Rank: Subspecies.