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Anas americana (American Wigeon)

Synonyms: Mareca americana
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The American wigeon (Anas americana), also American widgeon or baldpate, is a species of dabbling duck found in North America. This species is classified with the other wigeons in the dabbling duck genus Anas, which may be split, in which case wigeons could go into their old genus Mareca again. It is the New World counterpart of the Eurasian wigeon. Anas is the Latin for "duck" and americana refers to America.
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EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
0
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
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 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 2.10729
EDGE Score: 1.13375
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Attributes

Clutch Size [7]  8
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [2]  48 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  1,400,000
Incubation [4]  23 days
Mating Display [8]  Ground display (mostly)
Mating System [8]  Monogamy
Maximum Longevity [4]  21 years
Migration [1]  Intercontinental
Snout to Vent Length [2]  20 inches (51 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Rivers and Streams
Wing Span [9]  32 inches (.82 m)
Adult Weight [2]  1.656 lbs (751 g)
Birth Weight [4]  24 grams
Female Weight [6]  1.585 lbs (719 g)
Male Weight [6]  1.746 lbs (792 g)
Weight Dimorphism [6]  10.2 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Prairie wetlands, Boreal forests, Arctic tundra
Wintering Geography [3]  Widespread U.S./Mexico
Wintering Habitat [3]  Wetlands, Agricultural
Diet [5]  Herbivore
Diet - Plants [5]  100 %
Forages - Ground [5]  50 %
Forages - Water Surface [5]  50 %
Female Maturity [4]  1 year
Male Maturity [4]  1 year

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Boundary Bay: Roberts Bank: Sturgeon Bank (Fraser River Estuary) Canada A4i, A4iii
Long Point Peninsula and Marshes Canada A4i, A4iii

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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
♦ 6Wishart, RA 1979. Indices of structural size and condition of American Wigeon (Anas americana). Can. J. Zool. 57:2369-2374
♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303
♦ 8Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605
♦ 9del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 10Jorrit 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.
♦ 11Gibson, 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