Übersetzung für 'dabbling ducks' von Englisch nach Deutsch

dabbling ducks [Anatini]

Schwimmenten {pl}orn.T

• These birds are not very vocal, at least compared to dabbling ducks.
• The Eurasian teal is often called simply the teal due to being the only one of these small dabbling ducks in much of its range.
• They can also dive underwater for food, more proficiently than other dabbling ducks, and may also steal food from diving birds such as coots.
• Following the review of Livezey (1986), several species formerly classified as aberrant dabbling ducks or as "perching ducks" were placed in the Tadorninae.
• The hen's plumage is more subtle and subdued, with drab brown feathers similar to those of other female dabbling ducks.

  ---

• Its surviving members are the dabbling ducks, which feed mainly at the surface rather than by diving.
• Anatidae systematics, especially regarding placement of some "odd" genera in the dabbling ducks or shelducks, is not fully resolved.
• mtDNA is an unreliable source for phylogenetic information in many waterfowl (especially dabbling ducks) due to their ability to produce fertile hybrids, in rare cases possibly even beyond the level of genus (see for example the "Barbary duck").
• Dabbling ducks feed on the surface of water or on land, or as deep as they can reach by up-ending without completely submerging.
• Later, it was assigned to the "perching ducks", a paraphyletic assemblage of waterfowl most of which are intermediate between dabbling ducks and shelducks.

  ---