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Anas fulvigula (Mottled Duck)

Synonyms: Anas obscura fulvigula (homotypic)
Language: Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The mottled duck (Anas fulvigula) or mottled mallard is a medium-sized dabbling duck. It is intermediate in appearance between the female mallard and the American black duck. It is closely related to those species, and is sometimes considered a subspecies of the former, but this is inappropriate (see ). Along the Gulf of Mexico coast, the mottled duck is one of the most frequently banded waterfowl. This is due in part to the fact that it is mostly non-migratory. Approximately one out of every twenty mottled ducks is banded, making it an extremely prized and sought after bird among hunters.
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Infraspecies

Anas fulvigula fulvigula
Anas fulvigula maculosa

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
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 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
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 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 1.22586
EDGE Score: 0.800143
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Attributes

Clutch Size [4]  10
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [2]  56 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  460,000
Incubation [4]  26 days
Mating Display [7]  Ground display
Maximum Longevity [4]  20 years
Snout to Vent Length [2]  23 inches (58 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams, Temporary Pools, Coastal, Brackish Water
Adult Weight [2]  2.465 lbs (1.118 kg)
Birth Weight [4]  33 grams
Female Weight [6]  2.059 lbs (934 g)
Male Weight [6]  2.299 lbs (1.043 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [6]  11.7 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Freshwater marshes, Coastal saltmarshes
Wintering Geography [3]  Southeastern U.S.
Wintering Habitat [3]  Coastal saltmarshes, Freshwater marshes, Agricultural
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Carnivore (Vertebrates), Piscivore, Granivore, Herbivore
Diet - Ectothermic [5]  10 %
Diet - Fish [5]  10 %
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  40 %
Diet - Plants [5]  20 %
Diet - Seeds [5]  20 %
Forages - Ground [5]  20 %
Forages - Water Surface [5]  60 %
Forages - Underwater [5]  20 %
Female Maturity [4]  1 year
Male Maturity [4]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Caribbean Islands Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Haiti, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Martinique, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent And The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks And Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands - British, Virgin Islands - U.S. No
Mesoamerica Belize, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama No

Predators

Consumers

Range Map

External References

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Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org
♦ 2Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 3Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018.
♦ 4de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774
♦ 5Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027
♦ 6Moorman, TE and PN Gray. 1994. Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula). In A. Poole and F. Gill [eds.], The birds of North America, No. 81. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC
♦ 7Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
♦ 9Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database
Biodiversity Hotspots provided by Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund
Abstract provided by DBpedia licensed under a Creative Commons License
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0