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The red-crested pochard is a diving duck of Europe and Asia, notable for the male's orange head and bright red bill.
The rosy-billed pochard is a South American diving duck, notable for the male's red bill with a swollen knob at the base.
The brant goose is a small dark sea goose of the genus Branta, notable for Arctic breeding and coastal wintering in Europe and North America.
The maned duck is an Australian perching duck, notable for nesting in tree hollows and grazing in open woodland and pasture.
The swan goose is a large East Asian goose, notable as the wild ancestor of the Chinese and African domestic goose breeds.
The blue-winged goose is an Ethiopian highland endemic, notable for its restricted African range and slate-blue wing patches.
Stejneger's scoter is a large sea duck of northeast Asia, notable for its swollen yellow-orange bill knob in adult males.
The Brazilian teal is a small South American duck, notable for the male's red bill and a range from Brazil to Argentina.
The chestnut teal is an Australasian dabbling duck, notable for the male's chestnut body and green head in breeding plumage.
The yellow-billed teal is a South American dabbling duck, notable for its yellow bill and Andean and southern lowland populations.
The New Zealand merganser (Mergus australis) is an extinct duck endemic to New Zealand's Auckland Islands, last recorded when a pair was shot in 1902.
The Indian spot-billed duck is a South Asian dabbling duck, notable for a yellow-tipped black bill and orange-red spots at its base.
The flying steamer duck is a South American duck, notable as the only steamer duck species capable of sustained flight.
The blue-billed teal is an African dabbling duck, notable for the male's bright blue bill and its wetlands range south of the Sahara.
The eastern spot-billed duck is an East Asian dabbling duck, notable for breeding from Siberia to China and wintering farther south.
The Sunda teal is an Australasian dabbling duck, notable for island populations from Indonesia to New Guinea and northern Australia.
Bernier's teal is a Madagascar endemic duck, notable for its mangrove and coastal wetland habitat and endangered status.
Eaton's pintail is a brown pintail of the southern Indian Ocean, notable for breeding on the remote Kerguelen and Crozet islands.
The southern pochard is an African diving duck, notable for inhabiting lakes and marshes across sub-Saharan Africa and Madagascar.
Meller's duck is a large mottled duck of Madagascar, notable as an endangered island endemic also recorded on Mauritius.
The black scoter is a North American sea duck, notable for the adult male's all-black plumage and bright yellow bill knob.
The Andaman teal is a small duck endemic to the Andaman Islands, notable for its restricted Bay of Bengal range.
The Mauritius sheldgoose was an extinct shelduck of Mauritius, notable from subfossils and early accounts after human settlement.
The Reunion sheldgoose was an extinct shelduck from Réunion, notable as a Mascarene island species lost after European colonization.
The Mascarene teal was an extinct duck from the Mascarene Islands, notable from subfossil remains on Mauritius and Réunion.
The Amsterdam wigeon was an extinct flightless duck from Amsterdam Island, notable from subfossil remains in the southern Indian Ocean.
