Pacific Black Duck: Posterior, in water

Class:

Animals (Animalia) - Chordates (Chordata) - Birds (Aves)

Order:

Waterfowls (Anseriformes)

Family:

Waterbird (Anatidae)

Species:

Pacific Black Duck (Anas superciliosa)

This Photo:

Posterior, in water

General Species Information:
Found in the Murray Mallee SA and possibly elsewhere
It's very sad, but the Pacific Black Duck is becoming extinct.
The extinction process is via hybridisation with the introduced Mallard Duck. The Mallard is a more aggressive species, and so mates more readily than the native.

This species is

Australian Native Species, not listed in the SA Murray Mallee Survey of 2010.

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