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white-headed duck

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Also known as: Oxyura leucocephala

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conservation and extinction issues

In conservation: Introduced species
…threatened by hybridization is the white-headed duck (Oxyura leucocephala; see stifftail). The European population of this species lives only in Spain, where habitat destruction and hunting once reduced it to just 22 birds. With protection, it recovered to about 800 individuals, but it is now threatened by a related species,…
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In stifftail
…only European form is the white-headed duck (O. leucocephala), of the Mediterranean region to Turkistan; the drake is brown with an entirely white face, and his blue bill is humped at the base. Drakes of the maccoa duck (O. maccoa), of eastern Africa, and the Australian blue-billed duck (O. australis)…
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