Birds

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    Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Black Bellied Whistling Duck
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Dendrocygnini
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    Common Name
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Black-bellied Whistling Duck
    • 12-14 eggs
    • lightly hunted
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    Black-bellied Whistling Duck
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    Fulvous Whistling Duck
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    Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Fulvous Whistling Duck
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Dendrocygnini
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    Common Name
    Food Habits
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Fulvous Whistling Duck
    • Herbivorous, rice fields and marshes at night, grass and weed seeds, and waste grain
    • 12-14 eggs/clutch
    • lightly hunted, pest species to some farmers


  7. Common Name
    Food Habits
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Tundra Swan
    • herbivorous, aquatic veg. mostly
    • 4-5 eggs/clutch
    • hunted in some US states


  8. Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Tundra Swan
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Anserini
  9. Tundra Swan


  10. Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Trumpeter Swan
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Anserini


  11. Common Name
    Food Habits
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Trumpeter Swan
    • herbivorous, mostly aquatic veg.
    • 4-5 eggs/clutch
    • protected
  12. Trumpter Swan
  13. Mute Swan


  14. Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Mute Swan
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Anserini


  15. Common Name
    Food Habits
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Mute Swan
    • herbivorous, mostly aquatic veg.
    • 4-5 eggs/clutch
    • protected, considered a pest by some
  16. Greater White-fronted Goose


  17. Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Greater White-fronted Goose
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Anserini


  18. Common Name
    Food Habits
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Greater White-fronted Goose
    • herbivorous, grasses, sedges, wheat, rice, barley, waste grains
    • 4-5 eggs/clutch
    • hunted extensively


  19. Which is which?

    • Greater White-fronted Goose
    • Adult on top
    • Juvenile on bottom
    • Juveniles lack barring on chest
  20. Snow Goose


  21. Which is which?

    • Snow Goose
    • blue colour morph on top
    • white colour morph on bottom


  22. Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Snow Goose
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Anserini


  23. Common Name
    Food Habits
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Snow Goose
    • herbivorous, grasses, sedges, tubers, wheat, rice, barley, waste grains
    • 4-5 eggs/clutch
    • hunted, damages sensitive arctic plant species
  24. Ross' Goose


  25. Common Name
    Food Habits
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Ross' Goose
    • herbivorous, grasses, sedges, tubers, wheat, rice, barley, waste grains
    • 4 eggs/clutch
    • hunted


  26. Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Ross' Goose
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Anserini


  27. Which is which?

    • Brant Geese
    • Adult in top image
    • Juvenile in bottom image
    • Adult has white ring on neck
  28. Brant Geese


  29. Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Brant Goose
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Anserini


  30. Common Name
    Food Habits
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Brant Goose
    • herbivorous, grasses, sedges, aquatic saltwater plants
    • 4-5 eggs/clutch
    • hunted


  31. Common Name
    Order
    Family
    Subfamily
    Tribe
    • Canada Goose
    • Order: Anseriformes
    • Family: Anatidae
    • Subfamily: Anserinae
    • Tribe: Anserini


  32. Common Name
    Food Habits
    Clutch Size
    Eco Importance
    • Canada Goose
    • herbivorous, grasses, sedges, aquatic plant seeds, wheat, rice, barley, and especially corn
    • 4-5 eggs/clutch
    • heavily hunted, 2nd only to mallards, considered pest in some urban areas
Author
Miskozi
ID
75209
Card Set
Birds
Description
Birds
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