ANATIDAE
 

  SUBFAMILIA Dendrocygninae

   FULVOUS WHISTLING-DUCK: Dendrocygna bicolor

 
        It is the most common of the "whistling ducks."

                                            
 

          WHITE-FACED WHISTLING-DUCK: Dendrocygna viduata

    
"Wistling Duck face white." Typically, this duck half previous face white, contrasting
with the black and half later  its audible "siriri."
       

                          
         

                
         Sound        Video

        BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLING-DUCK: Dendrocygna autumnalis

       It inhabits the northeast of our country can reach the south of Santa Fe and north of  Buenos Aires.    

 SUBFAMILIA Anatinae

  MUSCOVY DUCK: Cairina moschata

   It inhabits aquatic environments in the northeast, in jungles and forests


                                     

       COMB DUCK: Sarkidiornis melanotos

       It inhabits aquatic environments of northeastern Argentina.

          COSCOROBA SWAN: Coscoroba coscoroba

         It inhabits swamps and lagoons. Often riding a large flocks or in pairs.

                           
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                  Sound                         Sonogram                   Video     

            BLACK-NECKED SWAN: Cygnus melancorypha

           It inhabits swamps and lagoons.

          
            Video

        KELP GOOSE: Chloephaga hybrida

       Inhabits sea coasts of southern Argentina

       Images taken in Lapataia Bay, Tierra del Fuego National Park.         
 

        UPLAND GOOSE: Chloephaga picta                                                               
 

   It inhabits aquatic environments Patagonian   

                                 Photographs taken in Tierra del Fuego Province
         Sound           
Photographs taken in Patagonia

         ASHY-HEADED GOOSE: Chloephaga poliocephala                                              

       It inhabits grasslands in humid areas of Patagonia

   

Photographs taken in Lanin National Park, Neuquen Province; El Chalten, Santa Cruz province and Roca Lake ,
Tierra del Fuego National Park.                           
 

          ANDEAN GOOSE: Chloephaga melanoptera

     

   Inhabits gaps altoandinas northwest.

 

 
 Photographs taken in Embalse La Angostura, Tucumán province and Laguna Brava, La Rioja province.

                         
        Sound                  Videos          

        DOMESTIC GOOSE: Anser anser

  

    Species introduced from Eurasia and North Africa.

 

           Images taken in Río Suquia, Córdoba province.

            CRESTED DUCK: Lophonetta specularioides specularioides


 
It inhabits rivers and mountain lakes. In Patagonia, reaches the Atlantic coast.   
Characteristic red eyes.



          
       
                   Images taken on the coast patagonica
       Sounds

       CRESTED DUCK: Lophonetta specularioides alticola


 
    Inhabits lagoons of northwestern Argentina.
    Something bigger, orange eyes.



                   
       
 Photographs taken at the National Natural Monument Laguna de los Pozuelos, Jujuy province.
      

 BRONZE-WINGED DUCK: Speculanas specularis
 

        It inhabits aquatic environments Araucanian forest, west of Patagonia

               Photographs taken in El Chalten, Santa Cruz province.

         
         Sound     

    CHILOE WIGEON: Anas sibilatrix

     


    It inhabits aquatic environments sweet and brackish

          
           Sound       

        YELLOW-BILLED PINTAIL: Anas georgica
 

    
   It inhabits aquatic environments throughout the country.

        SPECKLED TEAL: Anas flavirostris

         It inhabits aquatic environments throughout the country.   

          

              
                 Video
 

      SPECKLED TEAL NORTHWEST RACE: Anas flavirostris oxypterum

         It inhabits rivers and lakes Andean

            

   Photographs were taken at the Monumento Natural Nacional Laguna de los Pozuelos, Jujuy province.

                   

            Photo by both races at Laguna
          de Los Patos, Tilcara, Jujuy province

    RED SHOVELER: Anas platalea

 
        It inhabits aquatic environments throughout the country.

                                    
          Sound                           Videos

        BLUE-WINGED TEAL: Anas discors


  Summer visitors. scarce. were distributed throughout the country.

       
         Video

     CINNAMON TEAL: Anas cyanoptera
       
    

   It inhabits aquatic environments throughout the country.



               

 

         WHITE-CHEEKED PINTAIL: Anas bahamensis

 
        It inhabits aquatic environments across the country.

                                                         
                        Sound                      Sonogram                       Videos              

           SILVER TEAL: Anas versicolor

         It inhabits aquatic environments throughout the country.

 
   
              
                 Video

  PUNA TEAL: Anas puna

         It inhabits aquatic environments of the Puna.

   Photograph obtained Cortaderas, Catamarca province.
 

      Images taken inMonumento Natural Nacional Laguna de los Pozuelos, Jujuy province.

     MALLARD: Anas platyrhynchos

   Species originally introduced in the Falkland Islands where not prosperous.
Currently seen in the gaps in the northeastern province of Bs. AS. and south of Entre Rios.

        ROSY-BILLED POCHARD: Netta [Metopiana] peposaca

   

       It inhabits aquatic environments throughout the country.

 

         BRAZILIAN TEAL: Amazonetta brasiliensis

       
   It inhabits aquatic environments of northern and central Argentina.

            
               Video

      RINGER TEAL: Callonetta leucophrys

     Rivers, streams and lagoons of central and northeastern of Argentina.

                                     
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      BLACK-HEADED DUCK: Heteronetta atricapilla


     It inhabits aquatic environments throughout the country.

     ARGENTINE RUDDY-DUCK: Oxyura vittata

It inhabits aquatic environments throughout the country.


       
 

    ANDEAN RUDDY DUCK: Oxyura ferruginea
 

                
                                                         Sound 

     Inhabits mountain lakes. Photographs taken at Laguna Nimez, El Calafate, Province of Santa Cruz.         

    MASKED DUCK: Nomonyx dominicus

    Nothing semihundido. Not elevates the tail.
It inhabits lakes and lagoons in northern and central Argentina.

 Ilustration by Maria Gabriela Arancio.
                  
                                                       

      TORRENT DUCK: Merganetta armata armata

    It inhabits rivers and streams into torrents, cordilleranos the centre and south Argentine.
It differs from the northern race (Maberlepschi) for the colour of the male.


   

   Photographs taken in El Chalten, Santa Cruz province.

TORRENT DUCK North Race: Merganetta armata berlepschi

   
   
        It inhabits rivers and streams into torrents, in the Yunga argentina. The photographs were taken in the Río Yala, Parque Provincial Potrero de Yala, Jujuy province and Río Los Sosa, Tucuman province.

                     
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FUEGUIAN STEAMER-DUCK: Tachyeres pteneres

                            

     Inhabits Sea coast, south of Tierra del Fuego

    Photographs were taken  Bahia Lapataia, Tierra del Fuego National Park.

FLYING STEAMER-DUCK: Tachyeres patachonicus

     It inhabits aquatic environments of Patagonia, both freshwater and sea coasts.
The most common, stylized wings and longer. It is the only "steamed duck" that can fly.

 

Photographs taken off the coast of Chubut, lagoons and coasts of Santa Cruz.
 

Endemic species

    CHUBUT STEAMER-DUCK: Tachyeres leucocephalus  

   
   
 
    Endemic to Argentina, living marine coast of Chubut
Picture taken at Punta Tombo, Chubut Province.