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<\/a>View of wetlands from the central observatory at Martin Mere. Photo courtesy of http:\/\/www.thebiggesttwitch.com<\/p><\/div>\n
The list below contains all the water fowl\u00a0I photographed during my\u00a0visit, listed in alphabetical order. I haven’t included [the many other] birds that I saw but did not photograph. All new species I added to my life list during\u00a0this visit appear in bold blue<\/span><\/strong>, and exotics I had already recorded in plain red<\/span> text; for reasons of time and space I have only included photos of new species\u00a0today.<\/p>\n All photos except the above were taken by me, at Martin Mere and on the day, using\u00a0my Canon 7D and 400mm lens. As it was overcast early in the morning some photos have benefited from fill in flash, using a Better Beamer flash extender. Comments on distribution have been adapted from English or Spanish language\u00a0Wikipedia\u00a0<\/em>entries.<\/p>\n Click on any image to access the slide show, or scroll down to see the commented version. Finally, please note that pictures come BELOW names and descriptions of birds.<\/p>\n African White-backed duck<\/span><\/strong> African white-backed duck<\/p><\/div>\n American Black Duck<\/strong><\/span> American black duck<\/p><\/div>\n Andean goose<\/span> Australian Shelduck<\/span> Australian Shelduck<\/p><\/div>\n Baer’s Pochard<\/span> Baer’s Pochard<\/p><\/div>\n Bar-Headed Goose<\/span> Barnacle Goose<\/span> Barnacle Goose<\/p><\/div>\n Black Swan<\/span> Black Swan<\/p><\/div>\n Black-Necked Swan<\/span> Black-Necked Swan<\/p><\/div>\n Brent Goose<\/span> Brent Goose<\/p><\/div>\n Bronze-Winged Duck aka Spectacled duck<\/span> Bufflehead<\/span> Bufflehead<\/p><\/div>\n Cape Barren Goose<\/span> Cape Teal<\/span> Cape Teal<\/p><\/div>\n Comb Duck<\/span> Common Pochard<\/span> Common Shoveller aka Northern Shoveller<\/span> Crested Screamer <\/strong>aka<\/span> Southern Screamer<\/span> Crested Screamer aka Southern Screamer<\/p><\/div>\n Eurasian Crane<\/span> European Eider aka Common Eider<\/span> Garganey<\/span> Garganey<\/p><\/div>\n Grey-Crowned Crane<\/span> Hooded Merganser<\/span> Hooded Merganser<\/p><\/div>\n Marbled Teal<\/span> Muscovy Duck<\/span> Muscovy Duck<\/p><\/div>\n North American Redhead<\/span> North American Redhead<\/p><\/div>\n Orinoco Goose<\/strong><\/span> Orinoco Goose<\/p><\/div>\n Puna Teal<\/span> Red-Crested Pochard<\/span> Rosy-Billed Pochard<\/span> Ruddy Duck<\/span> Ruddy Shelduck<\/span> Ruff<\/span> Ruff<\/p><\/div>\n Shelduck<\/span> Shoveller aka Northern Shoveller<\/span> Smew<\/span> Smew<\/p><\/div>\n Snow Goose<\/span> Snow Goose<\/p><\/div>\n South Georgia Pintail <\/strong>aka<\/span> South Georgian teal<\/span> South Georgia Pintail aka South Georgian teal<\/p><\/div>\n Southern Pochard<\/span> Tundra Swan aka Bewick\u2019s Swan<\/span> West Indian Whistling Duck<\/span> White-Cheeked Pintail<\/span> Whooper Swan aka Elk<\/p><\/div>\n Whooper Swan<\/span><\/strong> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday, 22\u00a0January 2015 I visited the WWT site at Martin Mere for the first time with my new birding friend Richard Kettle. It was a cold winter’s day, and I spent a great deal of my time at the … Continue reading
\nThalassornis leuconotus<\/em>
\nLives in southern Africa, especially between Senegal and Chad in the west and Ethiopia and South Africa in the east.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAnas rubripes
\n<\/em>Native to eastern North America<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nChloephaga melanoptera<\/em>
\nLives in lakes and marshes high up in the Andes, usually well above 3000 metres<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Tadorna tadornoides
\n<\/em>Breeds in southern Australia and Tasmania<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Aythya baeri
\n<\/em>Found in eastern Asia. It breeds in southeast Russia and northeast China, migrating in winter to southern China, Vietnam, Japan, and India.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAnser indicus
\n<\/em>Breeds in Central Asia and winters in South Asia, as far south as peninsular India<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Branta leucopsis
\n<\/em>Breeds mainly on the Arctic islands of the North Atlantic.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Cygnus atratus
\n<\/em>Breeds mainly in the southeast and southwest regions of Australia<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Cygnus melancoryphus
\n<\/em>Found in freshwater marshes, lagoon and lake shores in southern South America.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Branta bernicla
\n<\/em>Breeds in northwestern Canada, Alaska and eastern Siberia, and winters mostly on the west coast of North America from southern Alaska to California, but also in east Asia, mainly Japan.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nSpeculanas specularis
\n<\/em>Lives among forested rivers and fast-flowing streams on the lower slopes of the South American Andes, in central and southern Chile and adjacent parts of Argentina.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Bucephala albeola
\n<\/em>Found on the east and west coasts of North America and the southern United States. Breeding habitat is wooded lakes and ponds in Alaska and Canada.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nCereopsis novaehollandiae
\n<\/em>A large goose that lives in southern Australia.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Anas capensis
\n<\/em>Lives on open wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nSarkidiornis melanotos
\n<\/em>Found in tropical wetlands in sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar and south Asia from Pakistan to Laos and extreme southern China. Also occurs in continental South America south to the Paraguay River region in eastern Paraguay, southeastern Brazil and the extreme northeast of Argentina, and as a vagrant in Trinidad.<\/p>\n
\nAythya ferina
\n<\/em>Pochards breed in much of temperate and northern Europe into Asia. They are migratory, and winter in the southern and west of Europe.<\/p>\n
\nAnas clypeata
\n<\/em>Breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, wintering in southern Europe, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Central, and northern South America.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Chauna torquata
\n<\/em>Found in southeastern Peru, northern Bolivia, Paraguay, southern Brazil, Uruguay and northern Argentina.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nGrus grus<\/em>
\nFound in northern parts of Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n
\nSomateria mollissima
\n<\/em>Distributed over the northern coasts of Europe, North America and eastern Siberia.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Anas querquedula
\n<\/em>Breeds in much of Europe and western Asia, but is strictly migratory, with the entire population moving to southern Africa, India (in particular Santragachi), and Australasia in winter<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nBalearica regulorum
\n<\/em>Found in dry savannah in Africa south of the Sahara, although it nests in somewhat wetter habitats. They can also be found in marshes, cultivated lands and grassy flatlands near rivers and lakes in Uganda and Kenya, and south to South Africa.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Lophodytes cucullatus
\n<\/em>Two major year-round ranges. One is in the Eastern United States from the southern Canadian border along the Atlantic Coast to the Gulf Coast in the region of the Mississippi delta. A smaller year-round range extends from Washington state and southern British Columbia to northern Idaho. Also breed to some extent in regions from Missouri to southern Canada and from Nova Scotia to eastern North Dakota and Saskatchewan, migrating when necessary to avoid winter conditions.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nMarmaronetta angustirostris
\n<\/em>Breeding now restricted to a few sites in southern Spain, northwest Africa and in Israel. In the east it survives in the Mesopotamian marshland in southern Iraq and in Iran (Shadegan Marshes – the world’s most important site), as well as isolated pockets in Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iraq and further to the east in western India and western China.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Cairina moschata
\n<\/em>Native to Mexico, Central, and South America. Small wild and feral breeding populations have established themselves in the United States, particularly in the lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and South Florida as well as in many other parts of North America, including southern Canada.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Aythya Americana
\n<\/em>Breeding habitat is marshes and prairie potholes in western North America.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nNeochen jubata
\n<\/em>Resident breeders in the forests of tropical South America.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAnas puna
\n<\/em>Resident in the Andes of Peru, western Bolivia, northern Chile, and extreme northwestern Argentina. Found on the larger lakes and pools in the altiplano.<\/p>\n
\nNetta rufina
\n<\/em>Its breeding habitat is lowland marshes and lakes in southern Europe and Central Asia, wintering in the Indian Subcontinent and Africa.<\/p>\n
\nNetta peposaca
\n<\/em>Endemic to South America. It is found in Argentina, central Chile, Paraguay, Uruguay and southern Brazil.<\/p>\n
\nOxyura jamaicensis
\n<\/em>A duck from North America and the Andes Mountains of South America,<\/p>\n
\nTadorna ferruginea
\n<\/em>Very small resident populations in north west Africa and Ethiopia, but the main breeding area of this species is from southeast Europe across central Asia to Southeast Asia.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Philomachus pugnax
\n<\/em>Breeds in marshes and wet meadows across northern Eurasia.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nTadorna tadorna
\n<\/em>Widespread and common in Eurasia, mainly breeding in temperate and wintering in subtropical regions.<\/p>\n
\nAnas clypeata
\n<\/em>Breeds in northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America, wintering in southern Europe, Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, and Central, and northern South America.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>Mergellus albellus
\n<\/em>Breeds in the northern taiga of Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Chen caerulescens
\n<\/em>Breeds north of the timberline in Greenland, Canada, Alaska, and the northeastern tip of Siberia, and spends winters in warm parts of North America from southwestern British Columbia through parts of the United States to Mexico. Flies as far south as Texas and Mexico during winter, and returns to nest on the Arctic tundra each spring.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\n<\/strong>Anas georgica georgica
\n<\/em>Endemic to the island of South Georgia and its accompanying archipelago, and a vagrant to the South Sandwich Islands.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nNetta erythrophthalma
\n<\/em>Two subspecies, the South American (southern) pochard (found from Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia and Argentina to Chile) and the African pochard (occurring from the Cape to the Ethiopian highlands).<\/p>\n
\nCygnus columbianus
\n<\/em>Also known as Bewick’s swan. Breeds in the Arctic and subarctic tundra, moving south in winter.<\/p>\n
\nDendrocygna arborea
\n<\/em>A whistling duck that breeds in the Caribbean, also known as Black-billed whistling duck and Cuban whistling duck.<\/p>\n
\nAnas bahamensis
\n<\/em>Found in the Caribbean, South America, and the Gal\u00e1pagos Islands<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nCygnus cygnus
\n<\/em>Winters in southern Europe and eastern Asia. Breeds in subarctic Eurasia, further south than Bewicks in the taiga zone. Rare breeders in northern Scotland.<\/p>\n