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Home Subjects Covers About Contact Order Galliformes (QUAIL, GROUSE, PHEASANTS, PARTRIDGES) Click on the thumbnail to see gallery of each species. Family Cracidae (CHACHALACAS, GUANS) Family Numididae (GUINEAFOWL) Ortalis vetula PLAIN CHACHALACA Numida meleagris HELMETED GUINEA FOWL Family Odontophoridae (NEW WORLD QUAIL) Callipepla californica CALIFORNIA QUAIL Callipepla gambelii GAMBEL’S QUAIL Callipepla squamata SCALED QUAIL Colinus […]
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact Cerambycidae is a family of beetles commonly referred to as longhorns, due to their very long antennae. These may be as long as or even longer than the body, although subfamily Parandrinae has atypically, short antennae. There are 10 subfamilies and over 26,000 species. The family name comes from
Home Subjects Covers About Contact MISCELLANEOUS WATERFOWL (Anseriformes) Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Anas bahamensis WHITE-CHEEKED PINTAIL Anas capensis CAPE TEAL Anas capensis CAPE TEAL Anas capensis CAPE TEAL Anas diazi MEXICAN DUCK Anas layanensis LAYSAN DUCK Anseranus semipalmatus MAGPIE
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) is a North American sea duck that dives for its food, mainly mussels and other benthic invertebrates. They breed in boreal forests near freshwater lakes in northern Canada and Alaska and winter along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as far south as Texas and Baja
Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) is North American and has a wide range over most of the US, Mexico and parts of Canada. They breed in marshy lakes or posts, with nests of grass hidden in tall vegetation and dive and swim underwater to feed on Arthropods and aquatic plants.
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Ring-necked duck (Aythya collaris) is a North American diving duck of boreal, wooded freshwater ponds and lakes that migrates to southern North America in winter. They are omnivorous, feeding on snails, worms, insects and submerged plants. It seems that Ring-billed Duck would have been a more apt name. Aythya collaris
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Redhead (Aythya americana) is a North American diving duck with an intermittent range from Canada to the Caribbean, favoring semi-permanent non-forested wetlands to breed and migrating south in winter. They eat mostly mollusks and insect larvae while breeding and more vegetation when migrating and wintering. Aythya americana REDHEAD *Revised gallery
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) is a diving duck with a serrated bill suitable for holding on to the fish it catches. Their breeding range is freshwater habitat in most of the northern hemisphere around the world, roughly above the latitude of Canada, and migrating further south in winter to where
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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Mandarin duck (Aix galericulata) is native to the Palearctic East and closely related to the Wood Duck, Aix sponsa, the only other generic member. Once widespread in east Asia, its has declined to about 1000 pairs each in Russia and China due to deforestation. Japan may have about 5000 pairs,
Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is a diving sea duck nesting and living near cold, fast moving streams along the northern Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, and eastern Russia. In eastern North America the they are declining and considered threatened by oil spills and hydroelectric projects. Today it is
