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Scientific name

Aythya fuligula

English name

tufted duck

Dutch name

kuifeend

German name

Reiherente

French name

fuligule morillon

Spanish name

porrón moñudo

Esperanto name

tufanaso

Image

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Song

Call

[sound:Kuifeend call.mp3]

Alarm call

Flight call

Courting call

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia

Phylum Chordata

Class Aves

Order Anseriformes

Family Anatidae

Genus Aythya

Frequency order

Extra

Note that duck species tend to have a recognizable patch of color on the secondary wing feathers (basically the upper arm feathers) visible in flight or sometimes slightly behind the upper feathers when not in flight. This is called the speculum (Dutch: spiegel) and is often the only way to clearly identify between species, especially for the females, who otherwise look very similar.

Duck species:

mallard/wilde eend: speculum blue banded with black, then again with white, orange-yellow beak, male: green or sometimes blue head, narrow white band around neck, dark chest, white belly;

gadwall/krakeend: speculum white, beak dark, otherwise mostly gray, male: fine pattern of black and white on the chest;

northern shoveler/slobeend: very large beak, black for male, orange for female, speculum green, banded on the inside with white, male: green head, white chest, rust-colored side, white further back, dark again at tail;

Eurasian/common teal/wintertaling: speculum (from outside in) black, green, white, beak dark (for female orangish at the bottom), male: chestnut brown head with green patch from back of head coming up to around the eye, chest white with black spots, side finely patterned with black and white;

Eurasian wigeon/smient: beak bluish gray with black tip, female otherwise best recognizable by darkish feathers with white belly, male: head chestnut brown, cream forehead, salmon chest, sides a fine pattern of gray and white, tail dark;

tufted duck/kuifeend: beak bluish gray with black tip, best recognizable by tuft on back of head (long for male in summer, short or almost absent otherwise) and dark color (black for male, dark brown female) with large light patch on side (white for summer male, lighter brown otherwise);

common pochard/tafeleend: beak black with lighter band in the middle (sometimes missing for female), male: head reddish brown, chest black, side white, tail black, female: head and chest brown, further back lighter brown or white, tail black.

Sources

Images male

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Images female

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