The Zoochat Photographic Guide to the Anseriformes

Chenonetta


Maned Duck (Chenonetta jubata)

The range of this species extends throughout Australia and Tasmania; largely absent from the arid central hub of the continent, and only patchily present in the tropical north.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ro6ca66


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Hymenolaimus


Blue Duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos)

Endemic to New Zealand, extending throughout the western coastline of South Island and much of the central and southern North Island.

Two subspecies are recognised:

H. m. malacorhynchos - photo by @lintworm



H. m. hymenolaimus - photo by @gentle lemur


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Merganetta


Torrent Duck (Merganetta armata)

The range of this species extends throughout the high mountain rivers and streams of the Andes, from western Venezuela and adjacent eastern Colombia in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south.

Six subspecies are recognised:

M. a. colombiana - photo by @toto98



M. a. leucogenis
M. a. turneri
M. a. garleppi
M. a. berlepschi
M. a. armata - photo by @lintworm


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Pteronetta


Hartlaub's Duck (Pteronetta hartlaubii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of West Africa and the Congo Basin, from Guinea in the west to southwest South Sudan in the east, and south to northern Angola in the west and southeast DRC in the east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek


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Cyanochen


Blue-winged Goose (Cyanochen cyanoptera)

Endemic to the Ethiopian Highlands.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Patrick87


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Marmaronetta


Marbled Teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris)

The summer breeding range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented distribution of disjunct populations from the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghreb in the west, through the Mediterranean into Asia Minor, the Middle East and Caucasus, and from here patchily through Central Asia as far east as northwest China; wintering populations extend throughout northwest Africa, the Nile Valley, Middle East and southern Asia Minor, Pakistan and western India, and patchily in West Africa.

Monotypic.

Photo by @KevinB


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Asarcornis


White-winged Duck (Asarcornis scutulata)

The range of this species extends in a highly-fragmented and patchy distribution from northeast India and Bhutan in the north, throughout Indochina and the Malay Peninsula, to Sumatra in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Dormitator


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Captive stock is all of North Island birds. (I can't tell from your post if the photo is representing the second subspecies listed, or is being used as a generic photo).

Additional edit: there are three photos of South Island birds under the NZ Wildlife gallery (the one by @lintworm is the best).
Blue Duck - ZooChat
Blue Duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) - ZooChat
Blue Duck (Hymenolaimus malacorhynchos) - ZooChat

 

Generic - if I'm using a photograph to represent a specific subspecies, the photo citation is on the same line, if it's generic I have the citation under the list of subspecies

Will get the post updated now

 

Netta


Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout the Caucasus and Central Asia into south-central Siberia, western Mongolia and northwest China; highly fragmented and patchy summer breeding populations also occur in western and central Europe and Asia Minor, with some populations in the Iberian Peninsula and northern Germany being resident. Wintering populations extend patchily throughout the Mediterranean, and also in the Indian Subcontinent and southwest China.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tim May




Rosy-billed Pochard (Netta peposaca)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southern South America, from eastern Bolivia and southern Brazil east of the Andes, and central Chile west of the Andes, south to Tierra del Fuego.

Monotypic.

Photo by @vogelcommando




Southern Pochard (Netta erythrophthalma)

The range of this species represents several highly-disjunct populations; throughout western South America in a highly-fragmented and patchy distribution from northern Venezuela in the north to northwest Argentina in the south; throughout much of eastern Brazil; and throughout much of eastern and southern Africa from Eritrea and Ethiopia in the north, south to the Western Cape, and northwest from here into west-central Angola.

Two subspecies are recognised:

N. e. brunnea - photo by @lisaS



N. e. erythrophthalma - photo by @jayjds2


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Aythya


Common Pochard (Aythya ferina)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from the British Isles and northwest Europe, throughout northern Europe into the Caucasus, Central Asia and Siberia, as far east as south-central Siberia, Mongolia and northern China; wintering populations extend patchily throughout western and southern Europe into North Africa, Asia Minor and the Middle East, and from here throughout the northern Indian Subcontinent and Himalayas into southern and eastern China, Japan, the Korean Peninsula and Taiwan, with populations also occurring patchily in the Sahel and along the Nile Valley.

Monotypic.

Photo by @demonmoth




Redhead (Aythya americana)

The summer breeding range of this species represents a patchy distribution of disjunct populations throughout North America; throughout central and eastern Alaska and adjacent northwest Canada; throughout southwest and south-central Canada into western and central USA; throughout the Great Lakes region of southeast Canada and northeast USA; and in south-central Mexico. Wintering populations occur throughout much of the southern USA and Mexico, as far south as Guatemala, and also into the Greater Antilles.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari




Canvasback (Aythya valisineria)

The summer breeding range of this species extends patchily throughout Alaska and western Canada into northern and western USA, and also sporadically in the Great Lakes and adjacent regions of New York; wintering populations extend from coastal southwest Canada throughout western USA into Baja California, east from here throughout central and southern USA, and south to central Mexico.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Ituri




Hardhead (Aythya australis)

The range of this species extends throughout Australia and Tasmania, barring the arid central and west-central hub of the continent.

Monotypic.

Photo by @WhistlingKite24




Madagascar Pochard (Aythya innotata)

The range of this species is restricted to the Banemavka region of northwest Madagascar.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Baer’s Pochard (Aythya baeri)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout the Amur and Ussuri regions of northeast China and the Russian Far East; wintering populations extend throughout southern and eastern China, and also west into northeast India and Bhutan, and south into northern and central Indochina.

Monotypic.

Photo by @gentle lemur




Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca)

The summer breeding range of this species extends in a highly-patchy and fragmented distribution throughout southern and central Europe and northern Africa into the Middle East, Caucasus and Arabian Peninsula, and from here into Central Asia as far east as northwest China and western Mongolia, with disjunct populations occurring in the Tibetan Plateau, Himalayas and northeast China. Wintering populations extend patchily throughout southern Europe, the Sahal and Nile Valley, and Asia Minor and the Middle East, into the Indian Subcontinent, southern China and Indochina, with populations also occurring in Central Asia and south-central Siberia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @vogelcommando




New Zealand Scaup (Aythya novaeseelandiae)

Endemic to New Zealand, but with populations patchy and fragmented on North Island.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Goura




Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris)

The summer breeding range of this species extends patchily throughout Alaska and central Canada to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the east, and south into northern California and Arizona in the western USA and the Great Lakes region in the eastern USA; wintering populations extend throughout the western and southern USA, Mexico and the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and patchily south through Central America into Panama.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Great Argus




Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout much of northern Eurasia, from Iceland and the British Isles in the west, through northern and central Europe, the Caucasus, Siberia and adjacent regions of Central Asia, to Kamchatka, northeast China and Sakhalin in the east; populations in western Europe are largely resident. Wintering populations extend in a highly fragmented and patchy distribution throughout southern Europe and northern Africa, Asia Minor and the Middle East into Tien Shan, the Indian Subcontinent, southern China and Indochina, as far east as Japan and the Korean Peninsula; disjunct populations occur patchily throughout the Sahel and sub-Saharan northeast Africa.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Dormitator




Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from Iceland and northern Scandinavia throughout northern Siberia to Kamchatka and the Bering Strait, and from here into Alaska and northern Canada to the Atlantic coast; highly patchy and fragmented populations occur in central and southern Canada. Wintering populations occur in the North Sea, Baltic Sea and adjacent regions of northwest Europe, the Black Sea and Caspian Sea, the Pacific coastline of Asia from southeast China in the south to the Aleutian Islands in the north, and from here throughout the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines of North America as far south as northern Mexico, with some populations occurring in interior USA.

Two subspecies are recognised:

A. m. marila - photo by @Maguari



A. m. nearctica - photo by @Pleistohorse




Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)

The summer breeding range of this species extends from Alaska into western and central Canada, and south into north-central USA as far south as northern California, Colorado and Minnesota; wintering populations extend from southwest Canada and northwest USA throughout western USA, Mexico and Central America as far south as Panama, and also throughout southern USA into the eastern coastline of USA and the Greater and Lesser Antilles, and from here into northern Venezuela.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Great Argus


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Rhodonessa


Pink-headed Duck (Rhodonessa caryophyllacea)

Almost certainly extinct, with no confirmed sightings since 1949; the range of the species formerly extended throughout northeast India and adjacent wetland regions of Bangladesh and Myanmar. Alleged sightings in the latter country have been reported as recently as 2005.

Monotypic; no photographs of living specimens are present within the Zoochat gallery.

Photo by @TeaLovingDave (taxidermy specimen)


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Salvadorina


Salvadori's Teal (Salvadorina waigiuensis)

The range of this species extends throughout the mountain streams and lakes of New Guinea.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.
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Tachyeres


Flying Steamerduck (Tachyeres patachonicus)

The range of this species extends throughout the southern coastlines of Chile and Argentina, south to Tierra del Fuego.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari




White-headed Steamerduck (Tachyeres leucocephalus)

The range of this species is restricted to a narrow strip of coastal southern Argentina, from the Valdés Peninsula in the north to Comodoro Rivadavia in the south.

Monotypic; no photographs of this species are present within the Zoochat gallery.


Magellanic Steamerduck (Tachyeres pteneres)

The range of this species extends from coastal south-central Chile in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @KevinB




Falkland Steamerduck (Tachyeres brachypterus)

Endemic to the Falkland Islands.

Monotypic.

Photo by @lintworm


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Lophonetta


Crested Duck (Lophonetta specularioides)

The range of this species extends throughout the Andes from central Peru in the north to southern Chile and adjacent Argentina in the south, and into Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands.

Two subspecies are recognised:

L. s. alticola
L. s. specularioides - photo by @ThylacineAlive


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Speculanas


Spectacled Duck (Speculanas specularis)

The range of this species extends throughout southern Chile and adjacent west-central Argentina in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Goura


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Amazonetta


Brazilian Teal (Amazonetta brasiliensis)

The range of this species extends throughout much of Brazil and adjacent regions of South America east of the Andes, from the Amazon River Delta in the north to Uruguay and adjacent northeast Argentina in the south, and west into east-central Bolivia; disjunct populations occur in the Guyanas, and in western Venezuela and adjacent northeast Colombia.

Two subspecies are recognised:

A. b. brasiliensis - photo by @Daniel Sörensen



A. b. ipecutiri - photo by @Macaw16


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Spatula


Garganey (Spatula querquedula)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout much of the Palearctic, from the British Isles and Low Countries in the west, through Europe, Asia Minor, the Caucasus and Middle East into Siberia and adjacent regions of Central Asia, to northeast China, northern Japan, Sakhalin and Kamchatka in the east. Breeding populations in western Europe are patchy and fragmented. Wintering populations occur throughout the Sahel of sub-Saharan Africa, into the Nile Valley and south through eastern Africa to Malawi; throughout the Indian Subcontinent into southern China, Indochina and the Malay Peninsula; and throughout the Greater Sundas and Philippines into New Guinea.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek




Hottentot Teal (Spatula hottentota)

The range of this species comprises a pair of widely-disjunct populations in sub-Saharan Africa; throughout northern Nigeria and adjacent southern Niger; and throughout eastern Africa and Madagascar from Ethiopia and southeast South Sudan in the north to the Western Cape, and north from here into southeast Angola. Largely absent from the Kalahari of southern Namibia.

Monotypic.

Photo by @ro6ca66




Puna Teal (Spatula puna)

The range of this species extends throughout the Andes from central Peru in the north, through northern Chile to adjacent northwest Argentina in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Goura




Silver Teal (Spatula versicolor)

The range of this species extends from southern Bolivia, Paraguay and northern Argentina in the north to Tierra del Fuego in the south; populations in southern Chile, southern Argentina and Tierra del Fuego are partially migratory, moving north into southern Brazil and eastern Paraguay in the winter.

Two subspecies are recognised:

S. v. versicolor
S. v. fretensis

Photo by @ro6ca66




Red Shoveler (Spatula platalea)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southern South America, from central Bolivia and western Paraguay in the north, through Argentina, central Chile and southern Brazil to Tierra del Fuego in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Daniel Sörensen




Cape Shoveler (Spatula smithii)

The range of this species extends throughout much of southern Africa, from southwest Angola in the west to south-central Zimbabwe in the east, and south to the Cape; the species is largely absent from north-central South Africa, eastern Namibia and much of central and southwest Botswana.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari




Australian Shoveler (Spatula rhynchotis)

The range of this species comprises three disjunct populations; in southwest Australia; in southeast Australia and Tasmania; and in New Zealand.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Tomek




Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout much of the Palearctic and Nearctic; from the British Isles, northern France and Low Countries in the west, through northern and central Europe into western Russia and the Caucasus, and from here throughout Siberia and adjacent regions of Central Asia to Kamchatka, Sakhalin and the Russian Far East in the east; and from Alaska in the west to north-central Canada in the east, and south from here into southwest and south-central USA. Populations in western Europe are patchy but often resident. Wintering populations extend patchily throughout southern Europe and northwest Africa; throughout the western Sahel from Senegal to central Chad; through the Nile Valley into Ethiopia and adjacent regions of eastern Africa to the Albertine Rift in the south; throughout southern Asia from the Persian Gulf in the west to eastern China, the Korean Peninsula and Japan in the east; and throughout southern USA patchily into Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean into northern Colombia in the south.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Great Argus




Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera)

The range of this species represents a pair of disjunct populations; the northern population is migratory, breeding from southwest Canada in the north, throughout western and central USA into central Mexico in the south, and wintering from the southernmost USA throughout Mexico and patchily into Central America as far south as Panama and northern Colombia; the southern population is resident, and extends patchily throughout the Andes from northwest Colombia in the north to southern Chile and Tierra del Fuego in the south, and also throughout southern and eastern Argentina into southernmost Paraguay and westernmost Uruguay.

Five subspecies are recognised:

S. c. septentrionalium - photo by @Great Argus



S. c. tropica
S. c. borreroi
S. c. orinoma
S. c. cyanoptera


Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout much of North America, from southeast Alaska in the west to southern Newfoundland and Nova Scotia in the east, and patchily south throughout northern and central USA to southeast Texas; wintering populations extend from the Pacific coastline of California throughout southern USA, and from here through Mexico and Central America, and the Greater and Lesser Antilles, into northern South America from central Ecuador in the west to the Guianas and coastal northern Brazil in the east.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Ituri


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Sibirionetta


Baikal Teal (Sibirionetta formosa)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout eastern Siberia, from the Yenisey Valley in the west to northern Kamchatka and western Chukotka in the east; wintering populations extend throughout Japan, the Korean Peninsula and southeast China.

Monotypic.

Photo by @KevinB


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Mareca


Falcated Duck (Mareca falcata)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout southeast Siberia and adjacent regions of northern Mongolia and northeast China, and through Sakhalin, northern Japan and the Kuril Islands into Kamchatka. Wintering populations extend from north-central India along the southern foothills of the Himalayas to southeast China and northern Myanmar, and from here throughout northern Indochina and eastern China to the Korean Peninsula and southern Japan.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Michal Sloviak




Gadwall (Mareca strepera)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout much of the Holarctic; from the British Isles and Iberian Peninsula in the west, through Europe into the Caucasus and southwest Russia, and throughout southern Siberia and adjacent regions of Central Asia to northeast China, the Russian Far East and northern Japan; and from south-central Canada into northern, western and central USA. Wintering populations extend patchily throughout western and southern Europe and northwest Africa; throughout the Nile Valley into eastern Africa as far south as northern Kenya and adjacent southern Ethiopia; patchily from Asia Minor and the Middle East through the northern Indian Subcontinent and northern Indochina to southeast China; and from the southwest coastline of Canada in the north to Baja California in the south, west from here throughout southern and eastern USA, and south to southeast Mexico.

A single extant subspecies - the nominate - is recognised.

Photo by @Great Argus




Eurasian Wigeon (Mareca penelope)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout northern Eurasia, from Iceland, the northern British Isles and Scandinavia in the west, throughout Siberia and adjacent regions of Central Asia, to Sakhalin and Kamchatka in the east; wintering populations occur patchily and in a highly-fragmented distribution throughout western and southern Europe and northern Africa; through the Sahel into eastern Africa from Egypt in the north to northern Tanzania in the south; from the Middle East into the western Indian Subcontinent; and throughout northern Indochina into southeast China, the northern Philippines and Japan. Patchy and fragmented wintering populations occur throughout the USA.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Great Argus




American Wigeon (Mareca americana)

The summer breeding range of this species extends throughout northern North America, from Alaska in the west, throughout central and southern Canada to southeast Canada in the east, and south from this range into central USA. Wintering populations extend from southwest Canada into much of the western, central and southern USA, and from here along the eastern coastline of the USA and south throughout Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean into northern Colombia and Venezuela.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Maguari




Chiloe Wigeon (Mareca sibilatrix)

The range of this species extends throughout southern South America, from central Chile and central Argentina in the north to Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands in the south; some populations extend north in the winter to southern Paraguay and southeast Brazil.

Monotypic.

Photo by @Jackwow


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