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Oxyura ferruginea (Andean Duck)

Synonyms: Erismatura ferruginea (homotypic)

Infraspecies

Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  1.276 lbs (579 g)
Birth Weight [1]  44 grams
Female Weight [1]  1.21 lbs (549 g)
Male Weight [3]  1.728 lbs (784 g)
Weight Dimorphism [1]  11.1 %
Clutch Size [2]  8
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  56 days
Incubation [2]  25 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  14 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  15 inches (38 cm)
Female Maturity [1]  1 year
Male Maturity [1]  1 year

Ecoregions

Protected Areas

Biodiversity Hotspots

Name Location Endemic Species Website
Chilean Winter Rainfall-Valdivian Forests Chile No
Tropical Andes Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Venezuela No

Prey / Diet

Atelognathus patagonicus (Patagonia Frog)[4]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Competing SpeciesCommon Prey Count
Chroicocephalus maculipennis (Brown-hooded Gull)1
Podiceps occipitalis (Silvery Grebe)1
Rollandia rolland (White-tufted Grebe)1

Range Map

External References

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
1Nathan 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
2del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
3Contreras, J. R. 1975. Características ponderales de las aves del Parque Nacional Nahuel Huapi y regiones adyacentes. Physis Sec. C (Buenos Aires) 34: 97-107.
4Anurans as prey: an exploratory analysis and size relationships between predators and their prey, L. F. Toledo, R. S. Ribeiro & C. F. B. Haddad, Journal of Zoology 271 (2007) 170–177
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
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