Übersetzung für 'perching ducks' von Englisch nach Deutsch

perching ducks [Cairinini]

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• Until the late 20th century, perching ducks meant "Cairinini", a tribe of ducks in the duck, goose and swan family Anatidae, grouped together on the basis of their readiness to perch high in trees.
• Following the review of Livezey (1986), several species formerly classified as aberrant dabbling ducks or as "perching ducks" were placed in the Tadorninae.
• The pygmy geese are a group of very small "perching ducks" in the genus "Nettapus" which breed in the Old World tropics.
• 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.