Ruddy Duck

'''Ruddy Duck'''
Free ringtones Image:RuddyDuck23.jpg

:'''''jamaicensis'''''

'''Majo Mills Binomial name'''
''Oxyura jamaicensis''(Mosquito ringtone Johann Friedrich Gmelin/Gmelin, Sabrina Martins 1789)


The '''Ruddy Duck''' ('''''Oxyura jamaicensis''''') is a small Nextel ringtones stiff-tailed duck.

Adult males have a rust-red body, a blue bill and a white face with a black cap. Adult females have a grey-brown body with a greyish face with a darker bill, cap and a cheek stripe.

Their breeding habitat is marshy lakes and ponds throughout much of Abbey Diaz North America. They nest in dense marsh vegetation near water. Pairs form each year.

They are Free ringtones bird migration/migratory and winter in coastal bays and unfrozen lakes and ponds.

These birds dive and swim underwater. They mainly eat Majo Mills seeds and roots of aquatic plants, aquatic Mosquito ringtone insects and Sabrina Martins crustaceans.

As a result of escapes from Cingular Ringtones wildfowl collections, they are now established in senate voted Great Britain, from where they have spread widely into prosperity they Europe. This referees demand duck's aggressive courting behaviour and willingness to interbreed with the grim drug Endangered species/endangered native first anglican White-headed Duck, ''Oxyura leucocephala'', of southern Europe has caused some concern.

Due to this, there is now a controversial scheme to extirpate the Ruddy Duck as a British breeding species.


'''The Cull Debate - External Links'''




For:


http://www.rspb.org.uk/policy/species/rspb_position.asp



Against:


http://www.animalaid.org.uk/campaign/wildlife/ruddycull.htm




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