Maccoa duck

The maccoa duck (Oxyura maccoa) is a small (48–51 cm) long African stiff-tailed duck.

Maccoa duck
O. maccoa, male
Conservation status
Vulnerable  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Anseriformes
Family:	Anatidae
Genus:	Oxyura
Species:	O. maccoa
Binomial name
Oxyura maccoa (Eyton, 1838)[2]
Oxyura maccoa range
Synonyms
Erismatura maccoa Eyton, 1838[3]

Adult males have a chestnut body, a blue bill and a black head. Adult females have a grey-brown body, with a dark grey bill and a dark brown crown, nape and cheek stripe.

This duck breeds in two main areas: eastern Africa from Sudan and Ethiopia to Tanzania and west to eastern Zaire, and southern Africa from Zimbabwe to Cape Province, South Africa. Its breeding habitat is shallow fresh waters, and it is also found in brackish and saline lakes in winter.[4]

Rarer than previously believed, it was uplisted from a species of least concern to Vulnerable species status in the 2017 IUCN Red List.[1]

At San Diego Zoo

References

1. BirdLife International. 2017. Oxyura maccoa. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2017: e.T22679820A119397766. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2017-3.RLTS.T22679820A119397766.en. Downloaded on 01 January 2019.
2. • Ride, W. D. L.; Cain, A. J.; Meinertzhagen, Richard; Hemming, Francis; Noakes, Diana N. (1956). "Proposed use of the plenary powers to validate the specific name punctata as the name for the Hottentot teal (Class Aves)". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 12 (2): 35–48.
   • Nye, I.W.B.; Melville, R.V. (1977). "Opinion 1078. Anas punctata Burchell, 1822 (Aves): Suppressed Under the Plenary Powers". The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 34 (1): 14–15.
3. Eyton, T.C. (1838). A monograph on the Anatidæ or Duck Tribe. London: Longman, Orme, Brown, Green & Longman. p. 169.
4. "Maccoa Duck - BirdLife Species Factsheet". BirdLife International. 2007. Retrieved 20 August 2015.

Further reading

• Maclean, G.L. (1997). "Maccoa Duck" (PDF). In Harrison, J.A.; Allan, D.G.; Underhill, L.G.; Herremans, M.; Tree, A.J.; Parker, V.; Brown, C.J. (eds.). Non-Passerines. The Atlas of Southern African Birds. 1. Johannesburg: BirdLife South Africa. pp. 148–150.