Definition & Betydelse | Engelska ordet MALLARD

Definition av MALLARD

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• The town was named by the railroad president, an avid hunter, from mallard ducks inhabiting the area ponds.
• They provide habitat for a number of bird species, including grey heron, osprey, mallard, goldeneye, goosander, the black-throated diver and hobby in the bays; on the cobs are colonies of herring gull, and the common tern; while on the fir-covered islands are capercaillie, woodpeckers and other birds.
• The female is a drab mottled brown like other dabblers, with plumage much like a female mallard, but easily distinguished by the long broad bill, which is gray tinged with orange on cutting edge and lower mandible.
• Females give a call similar to the quack of a female mallard but higher-pitched, transcribed as gag-ag-ag-ag.
• Lodi has adopted a Spring Creek resident mallard, which the residents have named "Susie the Duck", as a mascot.
• A molecular phylogenetic study published in 2009 that compared mitochondrial DNA sequences from ducks, geese and swans in the family Anatidae found that the Indian spot-billed duck was a sister species to a clade containing the Mexican duck, the American black duck, the mottled duck and the mallard.
• It is a member of the mallard clade of dabbling ducks, and is a highly unusual species, both behaviorally and genetically.
• Ducks and geese: mallard, pintail, American wigeon, cinnamon teal, green-winged teal, bufflehead, northern shoveler, ring-necked duck, wood duck, snow goose, white-fronted goose, Ross's goose.
• These may be descended from a common ancestor of dabbling ducks such as the Pacific black duck, Laysan duck, and mallard.
• The largest populations are: waterfowl - mallard; semi-aquatic – black-headed gull; in forest – chaffinch, chiffchaff; along river banks – sand martin; in settlements – feral pigeon, common swift, rook, tree sparrow.
• More than 150 bird species have been observed here, the most common including the mute swan, grey heron, mallard Eurasian coot, sedge warbler, great reed warbler, common moorhen, and great crested grebe.

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