masked duck
nomonyx dominicus latin

Masked Ducks breed in any freshwater water body with marsh vegetation and surrounded by heavy tree cover.

After I told some nearby birders about the sighting, my ID of the masked duck now seemed dangerously hasty.

We were within a few hundred yards of the Rio Grande and masked ducks were a rarity north of the border.

The cartoon raptor, a dinosaur, is crassly commercial, produced for kids in the same way the Anaheim Mighty Ducks' masked duck logo was.

The Masked Duck (Nomonyx dominicus) is a tiny stiff-tailed duck ranging through the tropical Americas.

The Masked Duck of Nomonyx has a more intermediate position; it probably diverged from the lineage leading to the main radiation some time after Heteronetta.

Primarily non-migratory, Masked Ducks are reported as very uncommon vagrants in the southernmost United States, along the Mexican border and in Florida.

It is sometimes included with the latter in the genus Oxyura, but apparently the Masked Ducks of our time are the descendants of a missing link in the Oxyurinae evolution, having changed but little for millions of years.

He makes the delights of sighting a rare masked duck or whooping crane palpable to even the most bird-agnostic of readers, conveying the solitary rituals of bird-watching, before he abruptly wearies of the pastime, having booked sightings of 400 different types.

The Masked Duck (Nomonyx dominicus) is a tiny stiff-tailed duck ranging through the tropical Americas.