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175 relations: Agriculture, Aix (genus), Alopochen, Anabernicula, Anas, Anatinae, Animal sexual behaviour, Annaka, Gunma, Anser (bird), Anserinae, Aquatic locomotion, Archipelago, Australian wood duck, Australotadorna, Avian influenza, Aythya, Baikal teal, Biogeography, Bird, Bird flight, Bird migration, Biziura, Black-headed duck, Blue duck, Blue-winged goose, Branta, Branta rhuax, Brazilian teal, British Museum, Bronze-winged duck, Brood parasite, Bufflehead, Cape Barren goose, Carl Linnaeus, Caspiodontornis, Chatham duck, Chen (genus), Chendytes, Clade, Cladistics, Common shelduck, Coot, Cormorant, Coscoroba swan, Cosmopolitan distribution, Cotton pygmy goose, Crested duck, Dinosaur, Diving duck, Duck, ..., Dunstanetta, Ecological niche, Egg incubation, Eider, Endemism, Eonessa, Evolution, Extinction, Family (biology), Fossil, Freckled duck, Genus, Goldeneye (duck), Goose, Grebe, Greylag goose, Gull, Habitat destruction, Handbook of the Birds of the World, Harlequin duck, Hartlaub's duck, Hawaii (island), Hawaiian Islands, Helm Identification Guides, Herbivore, Hooded merganser, Hybrid (biology), Incertae sedis, Introduced species, Island tameness, Kauai, Kazakhstan, Labrador duck, Lamella (surface anatomy), Late Cretaceous, List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species, Long-tailed duck, Magpie goose, Malacorhynchus, Malagasy sheldgoose, Mallard, Manuherikia (bird), Marbled duck, Mareca, Masked duck, Matanas, Megafauna, Mergini, Mergus, Milne-Edwards, Miocene, Miotadorna, Mitochondrial DNA, Moa-nalo, Monogamy, Monotypic taxon, Muscovy duck, Mute swan, National Audubon Society, Nene (bird), Neochen, Netta, New Zealand goose, Nomen dubium, Nucleic acid sequence, Oahu, Oxyurini, Paradise shelduck, Parallel evolution, Paraphyly, Pelagornithidae, Penis, Perching duck, Pest (organism), Petrel, Phylogenetic tree, Pink-headed duck, Pinpanetta, Piscivore, Precocial, Pygmy goose, Radjah shelduck, Ringed teal, Ruddy duck, Rupelian, Salvadori's teal, Sample size determination, Sarkidiornis, Scoter, Sexual dimorphism, Sheldgoose, Shelduck, Shiriyanetta, Sinanas, Small-billed moa-nalo, Smew, Spatula (genus), Spur-winged goose, Steamer duck, Steller's eider, Stiff-tailed duck, Subfossil, Swan, Symplesiomorphy, Tadorninae, Talpanas, Thambetochen, The Auk, Threatened species, Torrent duck, Tribe (biology), Trumpeter swan, Turtle, Turtle-jawed moa-nalo, Ungulate, Vegavis, Webbed toes, Whistling duck, White-backed duck, White-headed duck, White-winged duck, William Elford Leach, Year, Zoonosis, 10th edition of Systema Naturae. Expand index (125 more) »
Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Aix (genus)
Aix is a bird genus that contains two species of ducks: the wood duck (Aix sponsa), and the Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata).
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Alopochen
Alopochen is a genus of the bird family Anatidae, part of the subfamily Tadorninae along with the shelducks.
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Anabernicula
Anabernicula is an extinct genus of pygmy goose that existed from the Pliocene to the Pleistocene.
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Anas
Anas is a genus of dabbling ducks.
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Anatinae
The Anatinae are a subfamily of the family Anatidae (swans, geese and ducks).
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Animal sexual behaviour
Animal sexual behaviour takes many different forms, including within the same species.
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Annaka, Gunma
is a city located in Gunma Prefecture, Japan.
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Anser (bird)
The waterfowl genus Anser includes all grey geese (and sometimes the white geese).
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Anserinae
The Anserinae are a subfamily in the waterfowl family Anatidae.
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Aquatic locomotion
Aquatic locomotion is biologically propelled motion through a liquid medium.
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Archipelago
An archipelago, sometimes called an island group or island chain, is a chain, cluster or collection of islands, or sometimes a sea containing a small number of scattered islands.
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Australian wood duck
The Australian wood duck, maned duck or maned goose (Chenonetta jubata) is a dabbling duck found throughout much of Australia.
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Australotadorna
Australotadorna alecwilsoni is an extinct genus and species of bird, in the shelduck subfamily of the duck family, from the Late Oligocene of central Australia.
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Avian influenza
Avian influenza—known informally as avian flu or bird flu is a variety of influenza caused by viruses adapted to birds.
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Aythya
Aythya is a genus of diving ducks.
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Baikal teal
The Baikal teal (Sibirionetta formosa), also called the bimaculate duck or squawk duck, is a dabbling duck that breeds in eastern Russia and winters in East Asia.
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Biogeography
Biogeography is the study of the distribution of species and ecosystems in geographic space and through geological time.
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Bird
Birds, also known as Aves, are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.
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Bird flight
Bird flight is the primary mode of locomotion used by most bird species.
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Bird migration
Bird migration is the regular seasonal movement, often north and south along a flyway, between breeding and wintering grounds.
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Biziura
Biziura is a genus of stiff-tailed ducks endemic to Australasia and containing one living and one subfossil species.
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Black-headed duck
The black-headed duck (Heteronetta atricapilla) is a South American duck allied to the stiff-tailed ducks in the tribe Oxyurini of the family Anatidae.
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Blue duck
The blue duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae endemic to New Zealand.
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Blue-winged goose
The blue-winged goose (Cyanochen cyanoptera) is a waterfowl species which is endemic to Ethiopia.
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Branta
The black geese of the genus Branta are waterfowl belonging to the true geese and swans subfamily Anserinae.
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Branta rhuax
Branta rhuax is an extinct goose endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
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Brazilian teal
The Brazilian teal or Brazilian duck (Amazonetta brasiliensis) is the only duck in the genus Amazonetta.
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British Museum
The British Museum, located in the Bloomsbury area of London, United Kingdom, is a public institution dedicated to human history, art and culture.
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Bronze-winged duck
The bronze-winged duck (Speculanas specularis) also known as the spectacled duck, is a dabbling duck and the sole member of its genus Speculanas.
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Brood parasite
Brood parasites are organisms that rely on others to raise their young.
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Bufflehead
The bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) is a small sea duck of the genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes.
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Cape Barren goose
The Cape Barren goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae) is a large goose resident in southern Australia.
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Carl Linnaeus
Carl Linnaeus (23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778), also known after his ennoblement as Carl von LinnéBlunt (2004), p. 171.
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Caspiodontornis
Caspiodontornis is a doubtfully valid genus of the prehistoric pseudotooth birds of somewhat doubtful validity.
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Chatham duck
The Chatham duck or Chatham Island duck (Anas chathamica) is an extinct species of duck, formerly placed in a monotypic genus Pachyanas, which once lived in New Zealand’s Chatham Islands in the south-west Pacific Ocean.
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Chen (genus)
The white geese are a small group of waterfowl which are united in the genus or subgenus Chen, in the true geese and swan subfamily Anserinae.
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Chendytes
Chendytes lawi, commonly called the Law's diving-goose, was a goose-sized flightless sea duck, once common on the California coast, California Channel Islands, and possibly southern Oregon.
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Clade
A clade (from κλάδος, klados, "branch"), also known as monophyletic group, is a group of organisms that consists of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants, and represents a single "branch" on the "tree of life".
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Cladistics
Cladistics (from Greek κλάδος, cládos, i.e., "branch") is an approach to biological classification in which organisms are categorized in groups ("clades") based on the most recent common ancestor.
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Common shelduck
The common shelduck (Tadorna tadorna) is a waterfowl species of the shelduck genus, Tadorna.
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Coot
Coots are small water birds that are members of the rail family, Rallidae.
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Cormorant
Phalacrocoracidae is a family of approximately 40 species of aquatic birds commonly known as cormorants and shags.
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Coscoroba swan
The coscoroba swan (Coscoroba coscoroba) is a species of waterfowl endemic to southern South America.
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Cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, a taxon is said to have a cosmopolitan distribution if its range extends across all or most of the world in appropriate habitats.
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Cotton pygmy goose
The cotton pygmy goose or cotton teal (Nettapus coromandelianus) is a small perching duck which breeds in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia and south to Queensland.
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Crested duck
The crested duck or South American crested duck (Lophonetta specularioides) is a species of duck native to South America, the belonging to the monotypic genus Lophonetta.
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Dinosaur
Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.
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Diving duck
The diving ducks, commonly called pochards or scaups, are a category of duck which feed by diving beneath the surface of the water.
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Duck
Duck is the common name for a large number of species in the waterfowl family Anatidae, which also includes swans and geese.
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Dunstanetta
Dunstanetta johnstoneorum or Lockhart's Duck is a genus and species of extinct duck from the Miocene of New Zealand.
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Ecological niche
In ecology, a niche (CanE, or) is the fit of a species living under specific environmental conditions.
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Egg incubation
Incubation refers to the process by which certain oviparous (egg-laying) animals hatch their eggs; it also refers to the development of the embryo within the egg.
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Eider
Eiders are large seaducks in the genus Somateria.
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Endemism
Endemism is the ecological state of a species being unique to a defined geographic location, such as an island, nation, country or other defined zone, or habitat type; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsewhere.
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Eonessa
Eonessa is an enigmatic genus of bird possibly belonging to bird order Gruiformes and which consists of the single species Eonessa anaticula.
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Evolution
Evolution is change in the heritable characteristics of biological populations over successive generations.
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Extinction
In biology, extinction is the termination of an organism or of a group of organisms (taxon), normally a species.
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Family (biology)
In biological classification, family (familia, plural familiae) is one of the eight major taxonomic ranks; it is classified between order and genus.
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Fossil
A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.
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Freckled duck
The freckled duck (Stictonetta naevosa) is a waterfowl species endemic to Australia.
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Genus
A genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, as well as viruses, in biology.
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Goldeneye (duck)
Bucephala is a genus of ducks found in the Northern Hemisphere.
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Goose
Geese are waterfowl of the family Anatidae.
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Grebe
A grebe is a member of the order Podicipediformes and the only type of bird associated with this order.
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Greylag goose
The greylag goose (Anser anser) is a species of large goose in the waterfowl family Anatidae and the type species of the genus Anser.
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Gull
Gulls or seagulls are seabirds of the family Laridae in the suborder Lari.
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Habitat destruction
Habitat destruction is the process in which natural habitat is rendered unable to support the species present.
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Handbook of the Birds of the World
The Handbook of the Birds of the World (HBW) is a multi-volume series produced by the Spanish publishing house Lynx Edicions in partnership with BirdLife International.
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Harlequin duck
The harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is a small sea duck.
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Hartlaub's duck
The Hartlaub's duck (Pteronetta hartlaubii) is a dark chestnut-coloured duck of African forests.
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Hawaii (island)
Hawaiʻi is the largest island located in the U.S. state of Hawaii.
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Hawaiian Islands
The Hawaiian Islands (Mokupuni o Hawai‘i) are an archipelago of eight major islands, several atolls, numerous smaller islets, and seamounts in the North Pacific Ocean, extending some from the island of Hawaiokinai in the south to northernmost Kure Atoll.
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Helm Identification Guides
The Helm Identification Guides are a series of books that identify groups of birds.
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Herbivore
A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage, for the main component of its diet.
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Hooded merganser
The hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) is a species of small duck.
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Hybrid (biology)
In biology, a hybrid, or crossbreed, is the result of combining the qualities of two organisms of different breeds, varieties, species or genera through sexual reproduction.
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Incertae sedis
Incertae sedis (Latin for "of uncertain placement") is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.
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Introduced species
An introduced species (alien species, exotic species, non-indigenous species, or non-native species) is a species living outside its native distributional range, which has arrived there by human activity, either deliberate or accidental.
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Island tameness
Island tameness is the tendency of many populations and species of animals living on isolated islands to lose their wariness of potential predators, particularly of large animals.
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Kauai
Kauai, anglicized as Kauai, is geologically the oldest of the main Hawaiian Islands.
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Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan,; kəzɐxˈstan), officially the Republic of Kazakhstan (Qazaqstan Respýblıkasy; Respublika Kazakhstan), is the world's largest landlocked country, and the ninth largest in the world, with an area of.
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Labrador duck
The Labrador duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius) was a North American bird; it has the distinction of being the first endemic North American bird species to become extinct after the Columbian Exchange, with the last known sighting occurring in 1878 in Elmira, New York.
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Lamella (surface anatomy)
Lamellae on a gecko's foot. In surface anatomy, a lamella is a thin plate-like structure, often one amongst many lamellae very close to one another, with open space between.
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Late Cretaceous
The Late Cretaceous (100.5–66 Ma) is the younger of two epochs into which the Cretaceous period is divided in the geologic timescale.
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List of Late Quaternary prehistoric bird species
Prehistoric birds are various taxa of birds that have become extinct before recorded history, or more precisely, before they could be studied alive by ornithologists.
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Long-tailed duck
The long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis), once known as oldsquaw, is a medium-sized sea duck.
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Magpie goose
The magpie goose (Anseranas semipalmata) is the sole living representative species of the family Anseranatidae.
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Malacorhynchus
Malacorhynchus is a genus of duck within the family Anatidae.
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Malagasy sheldgoose
The Malagasy sheldgoose (Centrornis majori) is an extinct monotypic species of large goose in the shelduck subfamily.
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Mallard
The mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) is a dabbling duck that breeds throughout the temperate and subtropical Americas, Eurasia, and North Africa and has been introduced to New Zealand, Australia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, the Falkland Islands, and South Africa.
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Manuherikia (bird)
Manuherikia is a genus of extinct species of ducks from the Miocene of New Zealand.
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Marbled duck
The marbled duck, or marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris) is a medium-sized duck.
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Mareca
Mareca is a genus or subgenus of duck in the family Anatidae that includes the wigeons.
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Masked duck
The masked duck (Nomonyx dominicus) is a tiny stiff-tailed duck ranging through the tropical Americas.
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Matanas
Matanas enrighti is an extinct duck from the Miocene of New Zealand.
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Megafauna
In terrestrial zoology, megafauna (from Greek μέγας megas "large" and New Latin fauna "animal life") are large or giant animals.
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Mergini
The seaducks (Mergini) are a tribe of the duck subfamily of birds, the Anatinae.
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Mergus
Mergus is the genus of the typical mergansers, fish-eating ducks in the subfamily Anatinae.
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Milne-Edwards
Milne-Edwards is a surname.
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Miocene
The Miocene is the first geological epoch of the Neogene Period and extends from about (Ma).
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Miotadorna
Miotadorna sanctibathansi is an extinct tadornine duck from the Miocene of New Zealand.
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Mitochondrial DNA
Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA or mDNA) is the DNA located in mitochondria, cellular organelles within eukaryotic cells that convert chemical energy from food into a form that cells can use, adenosine triphosphate (ATP).
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Moa-nalo
The moa-nalo are a group of extinct aberrant, goose-like ducks that lived on the larger Hawaiian Islands, except Hawaiokinai itself, in the Pacific.
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Monogamy
Monogamy is a form of relationship in which an individual has only one partner during their lifetime — alternately, only one partner at any one time (serial monogamy) — as compared to non-monogamy (e.g., polygamy or polyamory).
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Monotypic taxon
In biology, a monotypic taxon is a taxonomic group (taxon) that contains only one immediately subordinate taxon.
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Muscovy duck
The Muscovy duck (Cairina moschata) is a large duck native to Mexico, Central, and South America.
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Mute swan
The mute swan (Cygnus olor) is a species of swan and a member of the waterfowl family Anatidae.
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National Audubon Society
The National Audubon Society (Audubon) is a non-profit environmental organization dedicated to conservation.
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Nene (bird)
The nene (Branta sandvicensis), also known as nēnē and Hawaiian goose, is a species of goose endemic to the Hawaiian Islands.
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Neochen
Neochen is a genus of birds in the family Anatidae.
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Netta
Netta is a genus of diving ducks.
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New Zealand goose
The New Zealand geese formed the extinct genus Cnemiornis of the family Anatidae, subfamily Anserinae.
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Nomen dubium
In zoological nomenclature, a nomen dubium (Latin for "doubtful name", plural nomina dubia) is a scientific name that is of unknown or doubtful application.
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Nucleic acid sequence
A nucleic acid sequence is a succession of letters that indicate the order of nucleotides forming alleles within a DNA (using GACT) or RNA (GACU) molecule.
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Oahu
O‘ahu (often anglicized Oahu) known as "The Gathering Place" is the third-largest of the Hawaiian Islands.
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Oxyurini
The Oxyurini are a tribe of the duck subfamily of birds, the Anatinae.
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Paradise shelduck
The paradise shelduck (Tadorna variegata) is a large goose-like duck endemic to New Zealand.
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Parallel evolution
Parallel evolution is the development of a similar trait in related, but distinct, species descending from the same ancestor, but from different clades.
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Paraphyly
In taxonomy, a group is paraphyletic if it consists of the group's last common ancestor and all descendants of that ancestor excluding a few—typically only one or two—monophyletic subgroups.
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Pelagornithidae
The Pelagornithidae, commonly called pelagornithids, pseudodontorns, bony-toothed birds, false-toothed birds or pseudotooth birds, are a prehistoric family of large seabirds.
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Penis
A penis (plural penises or penes) is the primary sexual organ that male animals use to inseminate sexually receptive mates (usually females and hermaphrodites) during copulation.
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Perching duck
The perching ducks were previously treated as a small group of ducks in the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae, grouped together on the basis of their readiness to perch high in trees.
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Pest (organism)
A pest is a plant or animal detrimental to humans or human concerns including crops, livestock, and forestry.
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Petrel
Petrels are tube-nosed seabirds in the bird order Procellariiformes.
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Phylogenetic tree
A phylogenetic tree or evolutionary tree is a branching diagram or "tree" showing the evolutionary relationships among various biological species or other entities—their phylogeny—based upon similarities and differences in their physical or genetic characteristics.
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Pink-headed duck
The pink-headed duck (Rhodonessa caryophyllacea) was (or is) a large diving duck that was once found in parts of the Gangetic plains of India, Bangladesh and in the riverine swamps of Myanmar but feared extinct since the 1950s.
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Pinpanetta
Pinpanetta is an extinct genus of birds, in the duck family, from the Late Oligocene of central Australia.
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Piscivore
A piscivore is a carnivorous animal that eats primarily fish.
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Precocial
In biology, precocial species are those in which the young are relatively mature and mobile from the moment of birth or hatching.
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Pygmy goose
The pygmy geese are a group of very small "perching ducks" in the genus Nettapus which breed in the Old World tropics.
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Radjah shelduck
The radjah shelduck (Radjah radjah), is a species of shelduck found mostly in New Guinea and Australia, and also on some of the Moluccas.
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Ringed teal
The ringed teal (Callonetta leucophrys) is a small duck of South American forests.
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Ruddy duck
The ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) is a duck from North America and one of the stiff-tailed ducks.
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Rupelian
The Rupelian is, in the geologic timescale, the older of two ages or the lower of two stages of the Oligocene epoch/series.
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Salvadori's teal
The Salvadori's teal or Salvadori's duck (Salvadorina waigiuensis) is a species of bird endemic to New Guinea.
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Sample size determination
Sample size determination is the act of choosing the number of observations or replicates to include in a statistical sample.
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Sarkidiornis
Sarkidiornis is sometimes considered a monotypic genus with its sole member the knob-billed duck (S. melanotos), a cosmopolitan species.
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Scoter
The scoters are stocky seaducks in the genus Melanitta.
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Sexual dimorphism
Sexual dimorphism is the condition where the two sexes of the same species exhibit different characteristics beyond the differences in their sexual organs.
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Sheldgoose
The sheldgeese are a genus (Chloephaga) of birds in the family Anatidae.
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Shelduck
The shelducks, most species found in the genus Tadorna (except for the Radjah shelduck (Radjah radjah), which is now found in its own monotypic genus), are a group of large birds in the Tadorninae subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as the geese and swans.
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Shiriyanetta
Shiriyanetta hasegawai is an extinct species of seaduck from the Pleistocene of Japan.
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Sinanas
Sinanas is a genus of prehistoric duck that lived during the middle Miocene.
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Small-billed moa-nalo
The small-billed moa-nalo (Ptaiochen pau), also known as the stumbling moa-nalo, is a species of moa-nalo, one of a group of extinct, flightless, large goose-like ducks, which evolved in the Hawaiian Islands of the North Pacific Ocean.
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Smew
The smew (Mergellus albellus) is a species of duck, and is the only living member of the genus Mergellus.
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Spatula (genus)
Spatula is a genus or subgenus of ducks in the family Anatidae that includes the shovelers and some of the teals.
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Spur-winged goose
The spur-winged goose (Plectropterus gambensis) is a large bird in the family Anatidae, related to the geese and the shelducks, but distinct from both of these in a number of anatomical features, and therefore treated in its own subfamily, the Plectropterinae.
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Steamer duck
The steamer ducks are a genus (Tachyeres) of ducks in the family Anatidae.
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Steller's eider
The Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri) is a smallish sea duck that breeds along the Arctic coasts of eastern Siberia and Alaska.
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Stiff-tailed duck
The stiff-tailed ducks, Oxyura, are part of the Oxyurini tribe of ducks.
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Subfossil
A subfossil (as opposed to a fossil) is a bone or other part of an organism that has not fully fossilized.
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Swan
Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus.
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Symplesiomorphy
In phylogenetics, a plesiomorphy, symplesiomorphy or symplesiomorphic character is an ancestral character or trait state shared by two or more taxa.
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Tadorninae
The Tadorninae is the shelduck-sheldgoose subfamily of the Anatidae, the biological family that includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl such as the geese and swans.
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Talpanas
Talpanas lippa, the Kauaʻi mole duck, is an extinct species of duck.
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Thambetochen
Thambetochen is an extinct genus of moa-nalo duck.
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The Auk
The Auk: Ornithological Advances is a weekly peer-reviewed scientific journal and the official publication of the American Ornithological Society (AOS).
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Threatened species
Threatened species are any species (including animals, plants, fungi, etc.) which are vulnerable to endangerment in the near future.
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Torrent duck
The torrent duck (Merganetta armata) is a member of the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae.
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Tribe (biology)
In biology, a tribe is a taxonomic rank above genus, but below family and subfamily.
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Trumpeter swan
The trumpeter swan (Cygnus buccinator) is a species of swan found in North America.
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Turtle
Turtles are diapsids of the order Testudines (or Chelonii) characterized by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs and acting as a shield.
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Turtle-jawed moa-nalo
The turtle-jawed moa-nalo (Chelychelynechen quassus), also formerly referred to as the large Kauai goose, is a species of moa-nalo, one of a group of extinct, flightless, large goose-like ducks, which evolved in the Hawaiian Islands of the North Pacific Ocean.
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Ungulate
Ungulates (pronounced) are any members of a diverse group of primarily large mammals that includes odd-toed ungulates such as horses and rhinoceroses, and even-toed ungulates such as cattle, pigs, giraffes, camels, deer, and hippopotami.
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Vegavis
Vegavis is a genus of extinct bird that lived during the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian stage) of Antarctica, some 68 to 66 mya.
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Webbed toes
Webbed toes is the common name for syndactyly affecting the feet.
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Whistling duck
The whistling ducks or tree ducks are a subfamily, Dendrocygninae, of the duck, goose and swan family of birds, Anatidae.
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White-backed duck
The white-backed duck (Thalassornis leuconotus) is a waterbird of the family Anatidae.
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White-headed duck
The white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala) is a small stiff-tailed duck some long.
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White-winged duck
The white-winged duck or white-winged wood duck (Asarcornis scutulata) is a large species of duck, formerly placed in the genus Cairina and allied with the dabbling ducks.
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William Elford Leach
William Elford Leach, MD, FRS (2 February 1791 – 25 August 1836) was an English zoologist and marine biologist.
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Year
A year is the orbital period of the Earth moving in its orbit around the Sun.
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Zoonosis
Zoonoses are infectious diseases that can be transmitted between animals and humans.
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10th edition of Systema Naturae
The 10th edition of Systema Naturae is a book written by Carl Linnaeus and published in two volumes in 1758 and 1759, which marks the starting point of zoological nomenclature.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatidae
