Male © Kacau Oliveira
Male and female © Ricardo A. Palonsky
Male and female © Silvia Faustino Linhares

brasiliansk and Amazonetta brasiliensis

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Identification

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Small, fairly common duck. Brownish at rest with a dark face, but striking in flight with a white inner wing panel contrasting with an iridescent dark green outer wing. Males have an orange bill, blue-gray in females. Encountered on lakes, ponds, rivers, marshy areas, and occasionally in more saline waters.

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