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The family of Funny wooden ducks is the most diverse of the order of Anseriformes. It includes 47 genera and about 150 species . This group includes such well-known types of water birds such as wooden ducks, geese and swans . Perhaps apart from the chickens birds has no other group of birds so numerous interrelations with the people numbers: five species were domesticated wooden ducks are hunted and kept for their meat, their eggs and their feathers, and in many forms they have received input in fairy tales, legends and Comics .
Funny wooden ducks are more or less strongly to an aquatic life adapted. Her long, wide body gives them buoyancy while swimming, the feet are webbed provided (except Hawaiian goose ), and set far back on the body. Result, the path to the country seems a bit awkward, but wooden ducks are birds while running not as awkward as many seabirds. The neck is often remarkably long - especially with the geese and swans, but also with some wooden ducks.
Funny wooden ducks swim with alternate strokes of the feet. Can also dive all wooden ducks, although they use this ability to widely varying degrees. Some do it only in an emergency, others such as diving, sea and rowing duck in the daily search for food.
Funny wooden ducks are very happy to vote. This is known the croaking of dabbling wooden ducks . Only female wooden ducks quack, while giving other sounds, such as thin Pfeiflaute of himself male. Geese are known for the loud cackling, Whistling wooden ducks and geese half mostly for whistling vocalizations. The most the cries of the swans can carry. The trumpeter swan has the vocal head and along the trachea vesicular resonance chambers ( bullae ) that amplify the volume of screams enormous. Only the rudder wooden ducks are little voting happy and apart from hissing and grunts almost silent.
Funny wooden ducks are on all continents except Antarctica widespread. They come in all climate zones of the high-arctic tundra prior to the tropical rain forests. Here, you can find them in all kinds of aquatic habitats. However, most species breed in fresh water and only come on the train and in the winter the sea, this is true even for most of the so-called sea wooden ducks. The Ruddy Shelduck and Bar-headed Goose, there are two types that are themselves still to be found in the mountains in 5000 m height.
One finds among the wooden ducks birds diurnal as well as nocturnal species. Most, however, are not fixed and mainly active at dusk. Often wooden ducks sleep on the water, where they stuck his head under a wing. A large part of the day is spent with the care of the plumage, which is oiled regularly with the secretion of the preen gland. Also, the non-diving species to wet their feathers regularly with water by vigorously flapping their wings on the water surface.
While only a few species breed in colonies, one finds wooden ducks outside the breeding season, often in large aggregations. These may include several types - then dabbling wooden ducks and diving wooden ducks often mix with other species of the same tribe . Only three species are strict loners: the Saumschnabelente, the blue-winged goose, and the Torrent Duck .
The dabbling wooden ducks gründeln using their beak fins in shallow water. The bottom sludge they are looking for water insects, crustaceans and plant parts. The Shoveler of the slats apparatus is so refined that it has become a plankton filterer. Also diving wooden ducks and rowing wooden ducks, but mostly they dive to the bottom. There they feed mainly on aquatic plants, sometimes insects and crustaceans. Among the sea wooden ducks and sawyers one also finds many representatives who dive for small animals. The sawyers are specialized fish hunter, the eider wooden ducks feed mainly on mollusks .
Funny wooden ducks birds breed in colonies not. Exceptions are mainly the geese tundra, as colonies still offer relatively best protection from predators in a wide open landscape. Colonies of wooden ducks birds are seldom excessively large and usually include a few dozen to a hundred pairs.
A notable exception is the South American cuckoo duck that does not build its own nest, but lay their eggs in the nests of coots sets and other wooden ducks. The young hatch after 21 days, leaving only one to two days later the nest. You are now completely independent. In contrast to the eponymous cuckoo spare them the eggs of the host, whose breeding is thus not damaged. While the cuckoo duck an obligatory brood parasite is never builds its own nest, occasional intra-specific brood parasitism occurs in several ways.
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