Name:African Black Duck
Alias:African Black Duck,Anas sparsa
Outline:Waterfowl
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The African Black Duck (Anas sparsa) is a medium-sized swimming bird in the family Anatidae.
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.
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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