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Oxyura jamaicensis (Ruddy Duck)

Synonyms: Anas jamaicensis (homotypic); Erismatura jamaicensis
Language: French; Spanish

Wikipedia Abstract

The ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) is a duck from North America and the Andes Mountains of South America, one of the stiff-tailed ducks. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek oxus, "sharp", and oura, "tail", and jamaicensis is Jamaica.
View Wikipedia Record: Oxyura jamaicensis

Infraspecies

Oxyura jamaicensis andina
Oxyura jamaicensis ferruginea
Oxyura jamaicensis jamaicensis (North American ruddy duck)
Oxyura jamaicensis rubida (Ruddy duck)

Invasive Species

View ISSG Record: Oxyura jamaicensis

EDGE Analysis

Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) 
2
 Unique (100)
Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) 
17
 Unique & Vulnerable (100)
ED Score: 5.68041
EDGE Score: 1.89918
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Attributes

Clutch Size [7]  8
Clutches / Year [4]  1
Fledging [6]  56 days
Global Population (2017 est.) [3]  1,200,000
Incubation [4]  23 days
Maximum Longevity [4]  14 years
Snout to Vent Length [6]  15 inches (38 cm)
Water Biome [1]  Lakes and Ponds, Coastal, Brackish Water
Wing Span [8]  22 inches (.57 m)
Adult Weight [2]  1.235 lbs (560 g)
Birth Weight [4]  43 grams
Female Weight [2]  1.124 lbs (510 g)
Male Weight [2]  1.345 lbs (610 g)
Weight Dimorphism [2]  19.6 %
Breeding Habitat [3]  Prairie wetlands, Freshwater marshes
Wintering Geography [3]  Widespread
Wintering Habitat [3]  Freshwater lakes and rivers, Coastal marine
Diet [5]  Carnivore (Invertebrates), Granivore
Diet - Invertibrates [5]  60 %
Diet - Seeds [5]  40 %
Forages - Underwater [5]  100 %
Female Maturity [4]  1 year
Male Maturity [4]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

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Ecosystems

Important Bird Areas

Name Location  IBA Criteria   Website   Climate   Land Use 
Cabral Lagoon Dominican Republic A1, A2, A4i, A4iii
Lago Cumbal Colombia A1
Laguna de Tota Colombia A1, A2
Salton Sea USA A4i

Biodiversity Hotspots

Prey / Diet

Sphaerium striatinum (striated fingernailclam)[9]

Predators

Haliaeetus leucocephalus (Bald Eagle)[9]

Providers

Parasite of 
Aythya americana (Redhead)[9]

Consumers

Range Map

External References

NatureServe Explorer

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
♦ 2Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n
♦ 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
♦ 6Nathan 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
♦ 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
♦ 8del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 9Jorrit 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.
♦ 10Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
♦ 11International Flea Database
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