White
Headed Duck
Oxyuraleucocephala
Photographed at
Animal Kingdom, Orlando, Florida Mar 2011
The White-headed
Duck is a blue bill, small stiff-tailed duck
that breeds in Spain, North, and Asia. Their breeding habitat is large
tracts of open water with dense stands of aquatic plants to provide cover and
nesting sites.
White-headed Duck dives and swim underwater for vegetable matter and
are reluctant to fly, preferring to swim for cover. This duck is considered endangered due reduction in population due to habitat loss and
hunting and introducing of the Ruddy Duck
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