Overview
Interesting Facts
- The Rosy-Billed Pochard shows a preference for shallow water, where they obtain food form the surface. Their nest is built in the ground in a dry area among reeds and rushes.
Common Names
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Common Names in Dutch:
Peposaka-eend
Common Names in English:
Rosy Bill, Rosy-billed Pochard, Rosybill
Common Names in French:
Nette demi-deuil
Common Names in German:
Rosenschnabelente
Common Names in Japanese:
ベニバシガモ
Description
Physical Description
Adult Female: Bill: bluish Body: Underparts: whitish.Adult Male: Bill: bright pink Body: Flanks: finely barred, silvery Upperparts: black with purple gloss.
Habitat
Shallow freshwater swamps , marshes, and small lakes .
Vegetation: freshwater lakes and ponds, freshwater marshes • Maximum Elevation: 1,200 meters • Foraging Strata: Water • Center of Abundance: Lower subtropical: lowlands, lower than 500 m.; subtropics. • Sensitivity to Disturbance: Low
Typically found in a lake at a mean distance from sea level of 1,355 meters (4,444 feet).[1]
Ecology:
List of Habitats
:
- 5 Wetlands (inland)
- 5.4 Wetlands (inland) - Bogs , Marshes, Swamps , Fens , Peatlands
- 5.5 Wetlands (inland) - Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha) [more info]
Biology
Diet
Seeds, roots , and vegetative parts of aquatic plants , grasses, and sedges. Although it is considered a diving duck, it feeds mostly on aquatic vegetation from the surface of the water.
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- C. Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
()
- (Haeckel, 1874) Cavalier-Smith, 1998
- Phylum:
Chordata
()
- Bateson, 1885
- Chordates
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
()
- Cuvier, 1812
- Vertebrates
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
()
- auct.
- Jawed Vertebrates
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
()
- Goodrich, 1930
- Class:
Aves
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- Subclass:
Avialae
()
- Gauthier, 1986
- Infraclass:
Aves
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758)
- Cohort:
Neognathae
()
- Pycraft, 1900
- Superorder:
Galloanserimorphae
()
- Sibley et al., 1988
- Order:
Anseriformes
()
- Wagler, 1831
- Suborder:
Anseres
()
- (C. Linnaeus, 1758) Wagler, 1831
- Suborder:
Anseres
(
- Order:
Anseriformes
(
- Superorder:
Galloanserimorphae
(
- Cohort:
Neognathae
(
- Infraclass:
Aves
(
- Subclass:
Avialae
(
- Class:
Aves
(
- Superclass:
Tetrapoda
(
- Infraphylum:
Gnathostomata
(
- Subphylum:
Vertebrata
(
- Phylum:
Chordata
(
- Infrakingdom:
Chordonia
(
- Branch:
Deuterostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Synonyms
Netta peposaca (Vieillot, 1816)
Notes
Name
Status: Accepted Name
.
Last scrutiny: 23-Jan-2007
Similar Species
Members of the genus Netta
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 4 species and subspecies in this genus:
(Southern Pochard) · (Southern Pochard) · (Rosy-Billed Pochard) · (Red-Crested Pochard)
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Further Reading
- A Directory of Neotropical Wetlands. IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 10, p. 100, p. 102, p. 130, p. 16, p. 17, p. 18, p. 19, p. 20, p. 205, p. 67, p. 675, p. 99.
- Ornithological gazetteer of Argentina / Raymond A. Paynter. 1995 Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1995. url p. 1018, p. 886, p. 887, p. 888, p. 985.
- Ornithological gazetteer of Brazil / Raymond A. Paynter, Jr. and Melvin A. Traylor, Jr. Cambridge, Mass.: Obtainable from Bird Dept., Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 1991. url p. 699, p. 707, p. 731, p. 742.
- Smithsonian year. 1965 Washington: Smithsonian Institution, 1965-1976. url p. 176.
- Special scientific report--wildlife / U.S. Department of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service. Washington, D.C.: The Service, 1949- url p. 400, p. 662.
Notes
Contributors
- BirdLife International 2009. Netta peposaca. In: IUCN 2011. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloadedon 02February2012.
- Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 15, 2012.
- IUCN 2012. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2011.2. . Downloaded on January 28, 2012.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:
- Avian Knowledge Network, eBird
- Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Natural History Specimen Data
- Field Museum, Birds specimens
- Senckenberg, Collection Aves
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 11734
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-175233
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 2495134
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 175233
- IUCN ID: 226746
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 133512
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 340.230 based on 3,782 observations. Altitude information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
