How many Waterfowl (Anatidae) species have you seen?

DaLilFishie said:
23 species and 1 hybrid
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Four wild additions since I made this post, to a total of 27 species:

Australian Shoveler
Pink-eared Duck
Musk Duck
Blue-billed Duck

And an ID correction on some dumped geese I saw ages ago got me another hybrid, to a total of 2 hybrids:

Domestic Greylag Goose X Domestic Swan Goose
 
From the rather impromptu life life I started on iNaturalist this past summer, I have seen 46. Taxa in bold are ones that I have seen/been able to identify in the wild

Gadwall
White-Winged Duck
Andean Goose
Blue-Billed Teal
Silver Teal
Puna Teal
Blue-Winged Teal
Spotted Whistling-Duck
White-Faced Whistling-Duck
Fulvous Whistling-Duck
Black Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Mute Swan
Mallard
Northern Pintail
White-Cheeked Pintail
Bernier's Teal
Common Goldeneye
Bufflehead
Barrow's Goldeneye
Red-Breasted Merganser
Scaly-Sided Merganser
Ross' Goose
Swan Goose
Domestic Graylag Goose
Baer's Pochard
Redhead
Ruddy Duck
Canada Goose
Mandarin Duck
Wood Duck
Hooded Merganser
Harlequin Duck
Domestic Muscovy Duck
Red-Crested Pochard
Rosy-Billed Pochard
African Pygmy-Goose
Cotton Pygmy-Goose
Flying Steamer-Duck
Marbled Duck
Cape Barren Goose
Coscoroba Swan
Brazilian Teal
Ringed Teal
Smew
Radjah Shelduck
 
Took a while to update my taxonomy but 152. Plus subspecies. But huge headstart having Wildfowl trust as my career start. Musk ducklings on my first day:), eggs brought in from Australia plus merganser and spectacled eider ducklings. I was in heaven. And then I met the male cereopsis. What an expletive bird.....
 
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Torgos said:
And then I met the male cereopsis. What an expletive bird.....
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Cape Barren geese seem to have a very poor reputation in European zoos. Here is Australia they just wander around the grounds not troubling anyone. Sure if you try to separate them from their goslings you are in trouble but otherwise,,,
 
MRJ said:
Cape Barren geese seem to have a very poor reputation in European zoos. Here is Australia they just wander around the grounds not troubling anyone. Sure if you try to separate them from their goslings you are in trouble but otherwise,,,
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Agreed, I’ve always found their reputation to be strange, Phillip Island was one of the places I loved exploring as a kid so I ran into many geese along my travels and the vast majority of them are as inoffensive as you can get. Black Swans on the other hand can get quite temperamental.

Anyway my list
Wild
Captive only

Magpie Goose
Black Swan
Mute Swan
Black Necked Swan
Cape Barren Goose
Greylag Goose (Domestic)
Swan Goose (Domestic)
Canada Goose
Mallard (Wild and Domestic)
American Black Duck
Pacific Black Duck
Muscovy Duck (Domestic)
Grey Teal
Chestnut Teal
Musk Duck
Freckled Duck
Blue-billed Duck
Australian Shelduck
Radjah Shelduck
Egyptian Goose
Plumed Whistling Duck
Wandering Whistling Duck
Green Pygmy Goose
Australian Wood Duck
Pink Eared Duck
Mandarin Duck
Australasian Shoveler
 
I'd find it easier to think of ones I haven't seen. Perhaps Kelp Geese- unless Slimbridge had them in the past? Also those weird Brazilian Mergansers Prague recently imported.
Crested Shelduck..;)
 
Since this thread is for just the family Anatidae, I will not be providing a taxonomic breakdown. I will not provide a facility breakdown either as nearly all of these came from Sylvan Heights Bird Park.

I have observed 87 species of waterfowl, including 78 species seen only in zoos, 1 species seen only in the wild, and 7 species observed in both zoos and the wild.

  • African Pygmy-Goose (Nettapus auritus)
  • American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)
  • American Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula americana)
  • American Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca carolinensis)
  • Atlantic Brant (Branta bernicla hrota)
  • Australasian Shoveler (Spatula rhynchotis)
  • Baer's Pochard (Aythya baeri)
  • Baikal Teal (Sibirionetta formosa)
  • Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus)
  • Barnacle Goose (Branta leucopsis)
  • Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica)
  • Bernier's Teal (Anas bernieri)
  • Black Swan (Cygnus atratus)
  • Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis)
  • Black-necked Swan (Cygnus melancoryphus)
  • Blue-billed Teal (Spatula hottentota)
  • Dusky Canada Goose (Branta canadensis occidentalis)
  • Cape Barren Goose (Cereopsis novaehollandiae)
  • Cape Teal (Anas capensis)
  • Chestnut Teal (Anas castanea)
  • Chiloe Wigeon (Mareca sibilatrix)
  • Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera)
  • Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)
  • Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)
  • Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)
  • Cotton Pygmy-Goose (Nettapus coromandelianus)
  • Eastern Spot-billed Duck (Anas zonorhyncha)
  • Egyptian Goose (Alopochen aegyptiaca)*
  • Emperor Goose (Anser canagicus)
  • Eurasian Wigeon (Mareca penelope)
  • Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca)
  • Flying Steamer-Duck (Tachyeres patachonicus)
  • Freckled Duck (Stictonetta naevosa)
  • Fulvous Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor)
  • Garganey (Spatula querquedula)
  • Greylag Goose (Anser anser)
  • Green Pygmy-Goose (Nettapus pulchellus)
  • Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)
  • Hartlaub's Duck (Pteronetta hartlaubii)
  • Hawaiian Goose (Branta sandvicensis)
  • Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
  • Indian Spot-billed Duck (Anas poecilorhyncha)
  • Knob-billed Duck (Sarkidiornis melanotos)
  • Lake Duck (Oxyura vittata)
  • Laysan Duck (Anas laysanensis)
  • Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)
  • Maccoa Duck (Oxyura maccoa)
  • Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
  • Mandarin Duck (Aix galericulata)
  • Maned Duck (Chenonetta jubata)
  • Marbled Duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris)
  • Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata)
  • Mute Swan (Cygnus olor)
  • Northern Pintail (Anas acuta)
  • Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata)
  • Orinoco Goose (Oressochen jubatus)
  • Paradise Shelduck (Tadorna variegata)
  • Pink-eared Duck (Malacorhynchus membranaceus)
  • Plumed Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna eytoni)
  • Puna Teal (Spatula puna)
  • Radjah Shelduck (Radjah radjah)
  • Redhead (Aythya americana)
  • Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina)
  • Red Shoveler (Spatula platalea)
  • Ringed Teal (Callonetta leucophrys)
  • Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris)
  • Ross's Goose (Anser rossii)
  • Rosy-billed Pochard (Netta peposaca)
  • Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)
  • Sharp-winged Teal (Anas flavirostris oxyptera)
  • Silver Teal (Spatula versicolor)
  • Smew (Mergellus albellus)
  • Southern Pochard (Netta erythrophthalma)
  • Spotted Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna guttata)*
  • Spur-winged Goose (Plectropterus gambensis)
  • Swan Goose (Anser cygnoides)*
  • Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator)
  • Wandering Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna arcuata)
  • West Indian Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna arborea)
  • White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis)
  • White-faced Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna viduata)
  • White-winged Duck (Asarcornis scutulata)
  • Whooper Swan (Cygnus cygnus)*
  • Wood Duck (Aix sponsa)
  • Yellow-billed Duck (Anas undulata)
  • Yellow-billed Pintail (Anas georgica)

Species marked with * above were NOT observed at Sylvan Heights Bird Park.

  • Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) (Wild only)
  • Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
  • Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)
  • Domestic Greylag Goose (Anser anser var. domestica)
  • Domestic Muscovy Duck (Cairina moschata var. domestica)
  • Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
  • Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos)
  • Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)
 
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