Mottled duck: Difference between revisions

There are two distinct [[subspecies]] of the mottled duck. One subspecies, the '''Gulf Coast mottled duck''' (''A. f. maculosa''), lives on the [[Gulf of Mexico]] coast between [[Alabama]] and [[Tamaulipas]] ([[Mexico]]); outside the breeding season, individual birds may venture as far south as [[Veracruz]]. The other, the '''Florida mottled duck''' (''A. f. fulvigula''), is resident in central and southern [[Florida]] and occasionally strays north to [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. The same disjunct distribution pattern was also historically found in the local [[sandhill crane]]s. Individuals of both subspecies were introduced into South Carolina in the 1970s and 1980s, where the birds of mixed ancestry have greatly expanded in range, extending through the Atlantic coastal plain of Georgia into northeastern Florida.<ref name="Birds of the World">{{cite journal |last1=Bielefeld |display-authors=etal |title=Mottled Duck |url=https://birdsoftheworld.org/bow/species/motduc/cur/introduction |journal=Birds of the World |date=4 March 2020 |publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology |doi=10.2173/bow.motduc.01 |s2cid=216430094 |access-date=26 September 2020}}</ref><ref name="eBird">{{cite web |url=https://ebird.org/map/motduc?neg=true&env.minX=-130.7953337827774&env.minY=35.894543807307656&env.maxX=-74.5453337827774&env.maxY=55.15764076883122&zh=true&gp=true&ev=Z&mr=1-12&bmo=1&emo=12&yr=all&byr=1900&eyr=2020 |website=eBird |publisher=Cornell Lab of Ornithology |access-date=26 September 2020}}</ref>

 

 

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