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Oxyura

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Noun1.Oxyura - ruddy duckOxyura - ruddy duck                          
genus Oxyura
bird genus - a genus of birds
Anatidae, family Anatidae - swimming birds having heavy short-legged bodies and bills with a horny tip: swans; geese; ducks
Oxyura jamaicensis, ruddy duck - reddish-brown stiff-tailed duck of North America and northern South America
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THE Latin name for the ruddy duck is Oxyura jamaicensis.
It's not a case of love a duck by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
serrator Linnacus, red- I O breasted merganser Oxyura jamaicensis (Gmelin), I O ruddy duck Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus), N R king eider Order Falconiformes (diurnal birds of prey) Family Accipitridae (kites, eagles, hawks, and allies) Accipiter cooperii (Bonaparte), I O Cooper's hawk A.
Revised checklist of the vertebrates of Indiana by Minton, Sherman A. / Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science
clypeata 4 Wood duck ([double dagger]) Aix sponsa 104 Common goldeneye ([section]) Bucephala clangula 18 Canvasback ([section]) Aythya valisinena 19 Hooded merganser ([section]) Lophodytes cucullatus 26 Lesser scaup ([section]) Aythya affinis 1 Redhead ([section]) Aythya americana 223 Ring-necked duck ([section]) Aythya collaris 51 Ruddy duck ([parallel]) Oxyura jamaicensis 2 No.
Wild Bird Influenza Survey, Canada, 2005 by Parmley, Jane E.; Bastien, Nathalie; Booth, Timothy F.; Bowes, Victoria; Buck, Peter A.; Andre Breau / Emerging Infectious Diseases
 
 
 
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