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Anatidae: Ducks, Geese, Swans, Teals, Shovelers, Pintails, Mergansers, Goldeneyes, Wigeons
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans, teals, shovelers, pintails, mergansers, goldeneyes, wigeons)
- waterfowl: ducks, geese, swans
- plus mergansers, teals, goldeneyes, scoters, wigeons
- around 40 genera - 25 depicted
- around 146 species worldwide - 47 depicted
Species on page
Ducks
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Mr. and Mrs. Mallard
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals)
Anatidae type species
Palo Alto Baylands 12-24-2010
Male-ard
Mallard
Bottoms up
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals)
Palo Alto Baylands
November 25, 2013
Mallard
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals)
Tasmania
September 11, 2015
Canon 7DMark2
Iceland Re ducks
Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals)
, Iceland
September 10, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
When mallards play pool
Fowl with bonnet
White cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
White-cheeked Pintail
White cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans, teals, shovelers, pintails, mergansers, goldeneyes, wigeons)
Galápagos
2010
Northern pintail (Anas acuta)
Northern pintail
Northern pintail
Pintail
Northern pintail (Anas acuta)
Family: Anatidae: (ducks, geese, swans, teals, shovelers, pintails, mergansers, goldeneyes, wigeons)
Merced National Wildlife Reserve
January 18, 2021
Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa)
Pacific black duck
Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa)
Family: Anatidae: (ducks, geese, swans, teals, shovelers, pintails, mergansers, goldeneyes, wigeons)
Tasman Peninsula
August 29, 2015
Canon 7Dmark2
Pacific black duck
Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa)
Family: Anatidae: (ducks, geese, swans, teals, shovelers, pintails, mergansers, goldeneyes, wigeons)
August 19, 2015
Perth, Australia
Canon 7Dmark2
Green patch
Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa)
Family: Anatidae: (ducks, geese, swans, teals, shovelers, pintails, mergansers, goldeneyes, wigeons)
August 19, 2015
Perth, Australia
Canon 7Dmark2
Brown black
Pacific black duck (Anas superciliosa)
Family: Anatidae: (ducks, geese, swans, teals, shovelers, pintails, mergansers, goldeneyes, wigeons)
Loganlea, Australia 2023
December 13, 2023
Canon R5
Andean teal (Anas andium)
Teal
Andean teal (Anas andium)
Family: Anatidae: (ducks, geese, swans, teals, shovelers, pintails, mergansers, goldeneyes, wigeons)
Taquile Island
Lake Titicaca, Peru
July 14, 2017
Canon 7Dmark2
Green-winged teal (Anas carolinensis)
Two for teal
Blue-winged teal (Anas discors) formerly (Anas discors)
Blue-winged teal
Blue-winged teal (Spatula discors)
Green Cay, Florida
2012
Spatuler
Cinnamin teal (Spatula cyanoptera)
Northern shoveler (Spatula clypeata)
Northern visitor
Mr. and Mrs. Shoveler
Shoveling
Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)
Muscovy
Duckling
Ducklings
Close
Closer
Muscovies
Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans)
Tamasopo Falls
Mexico
September 4, 2023
Canon R5
Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans)
Tamasopo Falls
Mexico
September 4, 2023
Canon R5
Canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
Canvasback
Stick in the mud
Greater scaup (Aythya marila)
Ring-necked ducks (Aythya collaris)
Necks rung
Redhead (Aythya americana)
Black-bellied whistling duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis)
Doesn't know the words
Whistling Duxie
Wandering whistling-duck (Dendrocygna arcuata)
Wandering whistling
Rudy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)
Ruddy duck
Ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans, teals)
London
May 7, 2004
Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS
with Geoffrey Tyack
Ruddy duck
Ruddy duck
Ruddy duck
Feeling droolish
Ruddy duck diving
Blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos)
Blue
Wood duck (Aix sponsa)
The whole family
Wood duck
Green Cay, Florida
April 30, 2015
Favorite child
Wood duck
Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata)
Mandarin
Confuse us say...
Mandarin duck
Australian wood duck (Chenonetta jubata)
Australian wood duck
Australian wood duck / maned duck (Chenonetta jubata)
Tasman Peninsula
September 13, 2015
Canon 7Dmark2
Duck
The mane thing ducks and lions have in common
Paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata)
Radjah Shelduck (Radjah radjah)
Shelducks
American wigeon (Mareca americana)
American wigeon
Gadwall (Mareca strepera)
Gadwalling away the time
G-wall
Odd couple
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
Geese
Canada Goose
Byxbee Park
Byxbee Park
Moving up
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans)
Photographing Nature class
October 21, 2017
Canon 7Dmark 2
Northern immigrants
Not yet aerodynamic
Goose and goslings
Goose close
Goslings on the road
Abbey Road Canada style
Canada gosling
Finding his shadow
Geese in a row
Walking to Canada
Brant (Branta bernicla)
Brant and Canada
Nene (Branta sandvicensis)
Nene (Branta sandvicensis)
Kilauea Military Camp
Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii
June 27, 2017
Canon 7D mark II
Nene (Branta sandvicensis)
Kilauea Military Camp
Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii
June 27, 2017
Canon 7D mark II
Nene (Branta sandvicensis)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals, merganzers,)
Kilauea Military Camp
Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii
June 27, 2017
Canon 7D mark II
Nene (Branta sandvicensis)
Kilauea Military Camp
Volcanoes National Park
Hawaii
June 27, 2017
Canon 7D mark II
Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)
Eqypt comes to Florida
Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals, merganzers)
Greynolds East
Florida
June 14, 2022
Canon R5
Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals, merganzers,)
Greynolds East
Florida
June 14, 2022
Canon R5
Sticking his neck out
Power step
Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals, merganzers,)
Only extant species in genus
Serengeti
July, 2012
Egyptian goose - feathered
Egyptian goose
Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals, merganzers,)
Company Garden, Cape Town
June 12, 2013
Egyptian goslings
Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals, merganzers,)
Company Garden, Cape Town
June 12, 2013
The Egyptian air force
Egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans, teals, merganzers,)
Tanzania
June 25, 2002
Canon PowerShot Pro90 IS
Ashy-headed goose (Chloephaga poliocephala)
Ashy
 Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL.jpg)
Male upland goose (Chloephaga picta)
Male upland goose
Female upland goose
Female upland goose (Chloephaga picta)
Tierra del Fuego National Park
December 20, 2013
Bar-headed goose (Anser indicus)
Bar some
with head baried
Greylag goose (Anser anser)
Graylag goose
What's the question
Anser profiled
Questioning look
Domestic Greylag goose (Anser anser domesticus)
Bad feather day
Greater white-fronted goose (Anser albifrons)
Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae)
Down under goose
Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae)
April 3, 2012
Cape Barren goose
Andean goose (Neochen melanoptera)
Two birds reflected
Andean goose (Neochen melanoptera)
Atacama, Chile
Canon T1i,
May 31, 2010
Snow goose (Chen caerulescens)
Snow in Hell
Snow in Hell
En Masse
Snow flurry
Swans
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
Swan song - near Folly Bridge
Brooding over seven eggs and a beer bottle
Four cygnets and mom
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans)
May 17, 2009
By May 18, they were gone and the nest was abandoned.
Oxford, England
Single cygnet
Swans, a-parently
Swan
Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
Family: Anatidae (duck, geese, swans)
Oxford
June 20, 2004
Canon digital rebel
Black neck swan (Cygnus melancoryphus)
Black neck swan
Patagonia
Black-necked swans
Black swan (Cygnus atratus)
Black swan
Black swan (Cygnus atratus)
April 3, 2012
More than a theory
This was taken at exactly the same location, more than three years later.
Hitchhiker
Note that the cygnets are light colored.
Whopper swan (Cygnus cyngus)
Whooper
Whoopers in flight
Whopper swan (Cygnus cyngus)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans)
Iceland
September 8, 2019
Canon 7Dmark2
Need ID
Duckling and family circus diagram
August 19, 2009
Duckling and duckweed
August 19, 2009
Green Cay, Florida
Ducking in
Palo Alto Baylands
2012
Common merganser (Mergus merganser)
Mr. and Mrs. Merganser
Common merganser (Mergus merganser)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans)
Male and female
June 4, 2011
Commoner
Ganser?
Common
Merganser
Hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
Merganzers in the hood
Mr. and Mrs. Hood
Flying the hood
Hooded merganzer
Common goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
Common Goldeneye
Common Goldeneye
The duck with the golden eye
Golden eye
Golden eye
Golden eye
Golden eye
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
Male bufflehead
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese, swans)
Central Park
New York
December 26, 2018
Canon 7Dmark2
Surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata)
Great Scoter
Scoter with mussel
Scoter
Scoter face
Common eider (Somateria mollissima)
Eider one
Misc
Geese is the word
Decoy
Duck
Don Edwards National Shoreline
December 9, 2017
Canon 7Dmark2
Duck prince
Passaic River
Summit, New Jersey
January 5, 2017
Canon 7Dmark2
Other Anseriformes
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Last modified: April 17, 2024
Created: February 2, 2007 (from kingfishers)
Contact: siegelr@stanford.edu
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Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)