African Black Duck

IUCN

Alias：African Black Duck，Anas sparsa

Basic Information

Scientific classification

name：African Black Duck
Aliases：African Black Duck，Anas sparsa
Outline：Waterfowl
Family：

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Feature

The bill is black and the legs and feet are orange

Details

The African Black Duck (Anas sparsa) is a medium-sized swimming bird in the family Anatidae.

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African black ducks are typically river ducks, almost never leaving rivers and streams. It mainly floats on the surface of the water and gets its food underwater, eating plants as the staple food and sometimes animal foods. Ducks have webbed toes, but rarely dive, swim with their tails out of the water, and are good at feeding, splashing and mating in the water. Like clean, often in the water and on the land preening carefully dressed. The diet includes larvae and pupae, aquatic animals, plants, seeds, small fish, snails and crabs.

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During the breeding season, African black ducks build a messy cup-shaped nest of grass roots near a water source, laying four to eight eggs at a time, which are incubated by the female for 30 days. After the duckling leaves the nest, the female duckling leads the duckling to live alone for about 86 days.

Listed in the International Red Book of Birds of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), 2009 list ver 3.1.

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Location

It is distributed in Eurasia and northern Africa, including the whole of Europe, Africa north of the Tropic of Return, the Arabian Peninsula, and Asia north of the Himalayas - Hengduan Mountains - Minshan Mountains - Qinling Mountains - Huai River. The region of south-central Africa, including the southern part of the Arabian Peninsula and the entire African continent south of the Sahara Desert (Tropic of Cancer). The Indian subcontinent and the southwestern part of China, including India, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Maldives and the southeastern part of China's Tibet. Indochina Peninsula and southeast coastal areas of China, including Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, southeast coastal areas of China, Hong Kong region of China, Hainan Island. The Pacific islands, including China's Taiwan Province, Dongsha Islands, Xisha Islands, Zhongsha Islands, Nansha Islands and the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia's Sumatra, J

Form

The African black duck has a brownish black head, a black body, and clear white stripes on its back. The duck has a black bill and orange legs and feet.