Knob-billed Duck

Sarkidiornis melanotos - Canard à bosse

Canard à bosse
Systematics
  • Order 
    :

    Anseriformes

  • Family
    :

    Anatidés

  • Genus
    :

    Sarkidiornis

  • Species
    :

    melanotos

Descriptor

Pennant, 1769

Biometrics
  • Size
    : 79 cm
  • Wingspan
    : -
  • Weight
    : 1750 à 2610 g
Geographic range

Distribution

Identification

Canard à bosse
♂ adult plum. breeding
Canard à bosse
♀ adult

Knob-billed Duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos) is a species of bird in the Anatidae family.

Subspecific information monotypic species

Foreign names

  • Canard à bosse,
  • Pato crestudo afroasiático,
  • pato-de-carúncula-afroasiático,
  • Glanzente,
  • bütykös fényréce,
  • Knobbeleend,
  • Oca dal bernoccolo,
  • knöland,
  • Kamand,
  • hrebenatka škvrnitá,
  • pižmovka hřebenatá,
  • Knopgås,
  • kyhmysorsa,
  • Knobbeleend,
  • ànec bec-crestat africà,
  • dziwonos szaroboczny,
  • paugurknābja pīle,
  • Гребенчатая утка,
  • コブガモ,
  • 瘤鸭,
  • เป็ดหงส์,
  • 瘤鴨,

Voice song and cries

Canard à bosse
♂ adult plum. breeding

Habitat

Canard à bosse
♂ adult plum. breeding

Grassland : Subtropical/Tropical Seasonally Wet/Flooded ; Wetlands (inland) : Permanent Rivers/Streams/Creeks (includes waterfalls), Bogs, Marshes, Swamps, Fens, Peatlands, Permanent Freshwater Lakes (over 8ha), Permanent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha), Seasonal/Intermittent Freshwater Marshes/Pools (under 8ha) ; Artificial/Terrestrial : Arable Land, Pastureland ; Artificial/Aquatic and Marine : Irrigated Land (includes irrigation channels)

Geographic range

Distribution

Threats - protection

IUCN conservation status
Extinct
Threatened
Least
concern
Extinc
in the Wild
Near
threatened
Not
evaluated
EX EW CR EN VU NT LC NE

Sources of information

Other sources of interest

QRcode Canard à bosse
published: - Updated: 28-09-2005
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