Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Ducks

Alopochen aegyptiacus
Lakes, marshes, swamps, rivers.
Locally in Africa, incl. the entire Nile Valley from Egypt south to Lake Victoria and s Mauritania, s Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegambia, Niger, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Cameroon, C. Afr. Rep., Chad, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Congo, Angola, Namibia and South Africa.
Formerly in Palestine.
Intro. England, Netherlands; widely domesticated.
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Tadorna ferruginea
Lakes, lagoons, rivers, small streams, from wet areas to desert and steppes.
Nw Africa in Spanish Sahara, n Morocco and w Algeria; a disjunct population now resident and breeding in the Bale Mts. in s Ethiopia; from the Balkans, nw Black Sea area and Turkey e through Caucasus and Caspian Sea to Altai, s in the Middle East and cn Arabia to s Siberia from Transbaicalia to Amurland, w China and s to Tibet and Manchuria.
Often escapes from captivity.
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Tadorna tadorna
Seacoasts, estuaries, lakes.
Nw Europe mostly in coastal areas in the British Isles, Shetlands and from s Scandinavia and Baltic Sea coasts w to w France, locally in s France, Italy, Sardinia, Tunisia, Balkans and Turkey, and from the Caucasus, Black Sea and Caspian Sea areas e to Altai, s to nw,s,ce Iran and e to se Siberia to s Transbaicalia, Mongolia, w,n China e to Manchuria and s to Tibet.
Often escapes from captivity.
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Alopochen aegyptiacus

Egyptian Goose

Restricted

range extending: Upper

Egypt, Lake Nasser

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Tadorna ferruginea

Ruddy Shelduck

not uncommon

has bred Tunisia

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Tadorna tadorna

Common Shelduck

Common

has bred: Sardinia, Jordan

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Plectropterus gambensis
Lakes, rivers, marshes, swamps.
From s Mauritania and Senegambia e through s Mali, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, s Niger, Gabon, Congo, C. Afr. Rep., s Chad and s Sudan to w,c Ethiopia and Zaire, Rwanda, Burundi, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, n Botswana, n Namibia and S. Africa.
Absent from heavily forested c Zaire and arid sw region in Namibia and sw Botswana.
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Nettapus coromandelianus
Marshes, ponds, rivers, paddyfields, lakes.
Lowlands to 500 m from Pakistan, India, Nepal and se China, s through se Asia to Sri Lanka, Andaman Is., Sumatra incl. Riau and Lingga arch., Java, Borneo, n Sulawesi; questionably on n Luzon in the n Philippines.
N New Guinea on the Sepik River; c highlands where possibly vagrant; and ne Australia in Queensland from Cape York Pen., s to ne New S. Wales.
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Aix sponsa
Wooded swamps, streams, marshes.
From s British Columbia and sw Alberta to s coastal and c int. Calif., wc Nevada, s Oregon, n Idaho and w Montana; c Arizona, s New Mexico; c Mexico; e of the Rockies from ec,s Saskatchewan e across s Canada to Nova Scotia and s to c,se Texas, Gulf coast, s Florida and Cuba. Introduced in Great Britain, not certainly established.
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