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[CameoRose scan] Painted by Maynard Reece, The Stiff-tails: Ruddy Ducks
| Subject: | [CameoRose scan] Painted by Maynard Reece, The Stiff-tails: Ruddy Ducks
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[CameoRose scan] Painted by Maynard Reece, The Stiff-tails: Ruddy Ducks
1973, oil on canvas
Two ruddy ducks have finally paired up after much courtship display by the male, whose stout neck sometimes gives him the name "bullneck."
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| The ruddy duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) is a duck from North America and the Andes Mountains of South America, one of the stiff-tailed ducks. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek oxus, "sharp", and oura, "tail", and jamaicensis is Jamaica. |
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Scientific Name: Oxyura jamaicensis (Gmelin, 1789)
Common Names: Ruddy Duck
French: Érismature rousse; German: Schwarzkopf-Ruderente; Spanish: Malvasía canela, Pato tepalcate
Taxonomy: Anas jamaicensis J. F. Gmelin, 1789, Jamaica.
Synonyms: Erismatura jamaicensis |
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