Übersetzung für 'dabbling duck' von Englisch nach Deutsch

dabbling duck

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• This dabbling duck is strongly migratory and winters far south of its breeding range.
• Eaton's pintail ("Anas eatoni") is a dabbling duck of the genus "Anas".
• Subfossil remains of a small, flightless dabbling duck have been recovered on Rota in the Mariana Islands.
• "Chenonetta" is a genus of dabbling duck. One species is extinct, while the other is extant.
• They were formerly placed in the "perching ducks", a paraphyletic group somewhat intermediate between shelducks and dabbling ducks, and it is not quite clear whether they should be placed in the Anatinae (dabbling duck) or Tadorninae (shelduck) subfamily.

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• The Indian spot-billed duck ("Anas poecilorhyncha") is a large dabbling duck that is a non-migratory breeding duck throughout freshwater wetlands in the Indian subcontinent.
• In captivity, the ruddy shelduck has been known to hybridise with several other members of "Tadorna", with several members of the dabbling duck genus "Anas", and with the Egyptian goose ("Alopochen aegyptiaca").
• The gadwall ("Mareca strepera") is a common and widespread dabbling duck DNA studies have shown that it is a sister species with the falcated duck; the two are closely related to the three species of wigeons, and all of them have been assigned to the genus "Mareca".
• The initially assumed relationship with the dabbling duck subfamily Anatinae [...] has been questioned, and it appears they form a lineage in an ancient Gondwanan radiation of waterfowl, within which they are of unclear affinities.
• 'to duck, bend down low as if to get under something, or dive', because of the way many species in the dabbling duck group feed by upending; compare with Dutch [...] and German [...] 'to dive'.

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