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.