Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Spot-billed Duck
  1. Scientific name: Anas poecilorhyncha
  2. Rank: Species
  3. Higher classification: Dabbling duck
  4. The spot-billed duck sometimes referred to as the spotbill, is a dabbling duck which breeds in tropical and eastern Asia. . It has three populations, treated here as subspecies, the Indian spot-billed duck (A. poecilorhyncha poecilorhyncha), Eastern spot-billed duck (A. poecilorhyncha zonorhyncha), and Burmese spot-billed duck (A. poecilorhyncha haringtoni). Some authors elevate the eastern population as a species, Anas zonorhyncha. The name is derived from the yellow and red spot on the bill.

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