Biology:List of birds of North America (Anseriformes)
The birds listed below belong to the biological order Anseriformes, and are native to North America.
Screamers
Order: Anseriformes Family: Anhimidae
The screamers are a small family of birds related to the ducks. They are large, bulky birds, with a small downy head, long legs and large feet which are only partially webbed. They have large spurs on their wings which are used in fights over mates and in territorial disputes. There are three species worldwide, one of which occurred in Trinidad and Tobago.
- Horned screamer, Anhima cornuta (Ex) LC
Ducks, geese and swans
Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae
The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, flattened bills, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils.
- American black duck, Anas rubripes LC
- American wigeon, Anas americana LC
- Baikal teal, Anas formosa (A) LC
- Barnacle goose, Branta leucopsis (C) LC
- Barrow's goldeneye, Bucephala islandica LC
- Taiga bean-goose, Anser fabalis (A) LC (without A. serrirostris)
- Tundra bean-goose, Anser serrirostris (A) (A. fabalis: LC)
- Black scoter, Melanitta americana NT
- Black-bellied whistling duck, Dendrocygna autumnalis LC
- Blue-winged teal, Anas discors LC
- Brant, Branta bernicla LC
- Bufflehead, Bucephala albeola LC
- Cackling goose, Branta hutchinsii LC
- Canada goose, Branta canadensis LC
- Canvasback, Aythya valisineria LC
- Cinnamon teal, Anas cyanoptera LC
- Comb duck, Sarkidiornis melanotos LC
- Common eider, Somateria mollissima LC
- Common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula LC
- Common merganser, Mergus merganser LC
- Common pochard, Aythya ferina (A) LC
- Emperor goose, Chen canagica NT
- Eurasian wigeon, Anas penelope (C) LC
- Falcated duck, Anas falcata (A) NT
- Ferruginous duck, Aythya nyroca (A) NT
- Fulvous whistling duck, Dendrocygna bicolor LC
- Gadwall, Anas strepera LC
- Garganey, Anas querquedula (A) LC
- Graylag goose, Anser anser (A) LC
- Greater scaup, Aythya marila LC
- Greater white-fronted goose, Anser albifrons LC
- Green-winged teal, Anas crecca LC
- Harlequin duck, Histrionicus histrionicus LC
- Hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus LC
- King eider, Somateria spectabilis LC
- Labrador duck, Camptorhynchus labradorius (E) EX
- Lesser scaup, Aythya affinis LC
- Lesser white-fronted goose, Anser erythropus (A) VU
- Long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis VU
- Mallard, Anas platyrhynchos LC
- Masked duck, Nomonyx dominicus LC
- Mottled duck, Anas fulvigula LC
- Muscovy duck, Cairina moschata LC
- Mute swan, Cygnus olor (I) LC
- Northern pintail, Anas acuta LC
- Northern shoveler, Anas clypeata LC
- Orinoco goose, Neochen jubata (A) NT
- Pink-footed goose, Anser brachyrhynchus (C) LC
- Red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator LC
- Redhead, Aythya americana LC
- Ring-necked duck, Aythya collaris LC
- Ross's goose, Chen rossii LC
- Ruddy duck, Oxyura jamaicensis LC
- Ruddy shelduck, Tadorna ferruginea (A) LC
- Smew, Mergellus albellus (A) LC
- Snow goose, Chen caerulescens LC
- Southern pochard, Netta erythrophthalma (A) LC
- Spectacled eider, Somateria fischeri LC Template:ESA status
- Spot-billed duck, Anas poecilorhyncha (A) LC (only eastern spot-billed duck, Anas (poecilorhyncha) zonorhyncha)
- Steller's eider, Polysticta stelleri VU Template:ESA status
- Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata LC
- Trumpeter swan, Cygnus buccinator LC
- Tundra swan, Cygnus columbianus LC
- Tufted duck, Aythya fuligula LC
- West Indian whistling duck, Dendrocygna arborea VU
- White-cheeked pintail, Anas bahamensis LC
- White-faced whistling duck, Dendrocygna viduata LC
- White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi LC
- Whooper swan, Cygnus cygnus LC
- Wood duck, Aix sponsa LC
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