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Tachyeres - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Tachyeres ( Steamer Ducks ) is a genus of ducks in the bird family Anatidae. All of the four species occur in South America, and all except T. patachonicus are flightless; even this one species...
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Flying Steamer Duck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Flying Steamer Duck , Tachyeres patachonicus , is a steamer duck. It is the most widespread steamer duck, resident in southern Chile and Argentina, Tierra del Fuego and the Falkland Islands. I...
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Territorial attacks can be fierce and even mortal; both intraspecific and interspecific aggression has been observed in steamer ducks. ...
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The Flightless Steamer Duck (Tachyeres brachypterus) is by far the most numerous of the Falklands marine ducks, breeding along all types of coast except steep cliffs. Each pair holds a territory comprising of a set length of coastline which it guards vigorously. ... Flightless Steamer Duck ; Tachyeres brachypterus;
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Flightless Steamer-duck Tachyeres pteneres - some photos and notes ... It is a large duck with very short wings and incapable of flight. It does "steam" across the surface of the sea a bit like a paddle steamer (see the photos for Flying Steamer-duck).
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The photos below are organized by day of the year. Clicking on an image thumbnail will take you to a larger photo. They have also been set up in manual slide show format, so you may view them sequentially without returning to ... Images are best viewed full screen at a resolution of 800 x 600 or greater. ... #4 - December 10;
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Stamps showing Falkland Islands Flightless Steamer Duck (Tachyeres brachypterus) ... Argentina SG 2386 (1994) ... Falkland Is SG 198 (1960)
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In the southern part of South America, about the Straits of Magellan, the Falkland Islands, and the Chilean coast, is a very curious Duck known as the Steamer-Duck (Tachyeres cinereus), so called from its peculiar method of locomotion. ... It is a large sea Duck, some thirty inches in length, mainly gray throughout,
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Steamer Ducks: Comprehensive information on this bird species, including origin, distribution and range, physical description and photos, diet and feeding, breeding and courtship behavior ... Flying Steamer Duck Tachyeres patachonicus : The Flying Steamer Duck is the most widespread steamer duck, resident in southern Chile...
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