Ducks, Geese, and Swans, Volume 16, Issue 1Janet Kear Wildfowl and screamers belong to a highly diverse family of birds, confined to watery habitats. |
Contents
Introduction Janet Kear | 3 |
Taxonomy and systematics Des Callaghan and John Harshman | 14 |
Feeding ecology Baz Hughes and Andy J Green | 27 |
Ecology of social behaviour Jeffrey M Black | 57 |
Breeding strategies and biology John Bowler | 68 |
Movements and migrations E C Rees G V T Matthews | 112 |
Population dynamics Tony | 132 |
Conservation and management Janet Kear Tim Jones | 152 |
Genus Dendrocygna | 189 |
Genus Thalassornis | 210 |
Genus Coscoroba | 219 |
Glossary 765 | 256 |
Genus Cereopsis | 257 |
Genus Anser | 263 |
Genus Branta | 306 |
Genus Stictonetta | 339 |
Genus | 171 |
Genus Marmaronetta | 171 |
Spectacled Eider Somateria fischeri 693 | 171 |
Genus Polysticta | 171 |
Genus Mergellus | 171 |
Genus Anhima | 176 |
Genus Anseranas | 182 |
Genus Heteronetta | 346 |
Genus Hymenolaimus | 370 |
Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna | 420 |
Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea | 426 |
Australian Shelduck Tadorna tadornoides | 434 |
Genus Malacorhynchus | 442 |
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Anseriformes aquatic arctic Bewick's Swans bill birds body breast breeding areas breeding behaviour breeding season brood captivity Carbonell 1996 clutch coastal Comb Duck Common Eider Common Shelduck Conservation and threats coverts Cramp and Simmons cygnets dabbling ducks dark brown Delacour Description ADULT Displays and breeding diving ducklings eggs feathers feeding female Field characters fledging flight flightless flocks Frith geese Goose goslings grey habitat hatching head and neck hunting IMMATURE increased incubation Island Kear lakes legs and feet male Marchant and Higgins mate MEASUREMENTS AND WEIGHT migration moult Musk Duck Mute Swans nest nonbreeding North northern numbers occurs pairbond pairs pale parents plumage population predators Range and status river roosts Ruddy Duck sexes Shelduck Snow Geese South southern species stifftails subspecies Svalbard tail tarsus Teal territory tion underparts vegetation Wandering Whistling-duck wetlands Whistling-duck White-headed Duck Whooper Swans wild wildfowl wing moult winter young