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| − | [[Image:31912DSC 1417PSforum.jpg|thumb|550px|right|Male<br >Photo by {{user|Sussex+bird+man|Sussex bird man}}<br />Laguna Nimez, [[Argentina]], November 2006]]
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| − | ;[[:Category:Oxyura|Oxyura]] ferruginea
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| − | ==Identification==
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| − | '''Male''' has mostly chestnut body with white belly and black head with bright blue bill with a slight bump over the nostril in the southern ''ferruginea'' population. In the northern ''andina'' population, the head varies from black to having a lot of white, with many different intermediates known. '''Female''' is mostly brownish and has a head with dark crown to under eye, and one additional darker stripe below; in non-breeding plumage, both sexes has a single white(ish) stripe across face.
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| − | ==Distribution==
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| − | [[South America]]: found in [[Colombia]], [[Ecuador]], [[Peru]], [[Bolivia]], [[Argentina]], and [[Chile]].
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| − | ==Taxonomy==
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| − | Considered monotypic by Clements<sup>[[#References|1]]</sup>, but some recent field guides believe two subspecies exists: ''ferruginea'', and ''andina''.
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| − | Some sources still consider Andean Duck a subspecies of [[Ruddy Duck]] ''Oxyura jamaicensis''.<sup>[[#References|2]]</sup>
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| − | [[Image:Andean_Duck.jpg|thumb|350px|right|Female<br />Photo by {{user|Robert+Scanlon|Robert Scanlon}}<br />Bogota, [[Colombia]], January 2004]]
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| − | ==Habitat==
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| − | Lakes, pools and marshes.
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| − | ==Behaviour==
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| − | It cocks the tail much of the time. Except when on the nest spends much time on open water or diving for food.
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| − | ==References==
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| − | #{{Ref-Clements6thNov08}}#Arthur Grosset
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| − | # Restall et al. 2006. Birds of Northern South America. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300124156
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| − | # Alvaro Jaramillo. 2003. Birds of Chile. Princeton Field Guides. ISBN 0-691-11740-3
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| − | ==External Links==
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| − | *[http://www.arthurgrosset.com/sabirds/andeanduck.html Arthur Grosset's Birds]
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| − | {{GSearch|Oxyura+ferruginea}}
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| − | [[Category:Birds]] [[Category:Oxyura]]
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