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Mergansers; River and Pond Ducks; Sea and Bay Ducks; Geese; Swans
Five subfamilies, numbering about two hundred species, constitute this large family of water fowl that in itself forms a well-defined order. They are the mergansers, river ducks, sea ducks, geese, and swans. All these birds have the margins of the beak (rostrum) furnished with lamels, or plates, tooth-like projections, fluted ridges or gutters along its sides; but the subfamilies are so well defined that their peculiarities would best be noted separately.
- Mergansers, or Fishing Ducks Subfamily Merginoe
- River and Pond Ducks Subfamily Anatinoe
- Sea and Bay Ducks Subfamily Fuligulinoe
- Geese Subfamily Anserinoe
- American Merganser Merganser americanus
Red-breasted Merganser Merganser Serrator- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
Mallard Duck Anas boschas- Mallard Duck — Part 2 Anas boschas
Black Duck Anas Obscura- Gadwall Anas strepera
Baldpate Anas americana- Baldpate — Part 2 Anas americana
Green-winged Teal Anas carolinensis- Green-winged Teal — Part 2 Anas carolinensis
- Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
- Shoveler Spatula clypeata
Pintail Dafila acuta
Wood Duck Aix sponsa- Wood Duck — Part 2 Aix sponsa
- Redhead Aythyra americana
- Redhead — Part 2 Aythyra americana
Canvasback Aythyra vallisneria.
Greater Scaup Duck Aythyra marila nearctica- Greater Scaup Duck — Part 2 Aythyra marila nearctica
American Golden-eye Glaucionetta clangula americana- Bufflehead Charitonetta albeola
- Old Squaw Clangula byemalis
- Old Squaw — Part 2 Clangula byemalis
- American Eider Somateria dresseri
- American Scoter Oidemia americana
- Ruddy Duck. Erismatura rubida
- American White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons gambeli
- Snow Goose Chen hyperborea nivalis
Canada Goose Branta canadensis- Canada Goose — Part 2 Branta canadensis
- Brant Branta bernicla
- Whistling Swan Olor columbianus
- Whistling Swan — Part 2 Olor columbianus