Labrador Duck

Labrador Duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius)
No photo of the Labrador Duck available.

Labrador Duck
Camptorhynchus labradorius (Gmelin)
Status Extinct. Formerly a regular visitor along our coast in winter. According to Audubon (1839), Professor McCulloch of Pictou procured several in his neighbourhood.

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Labrador duck (Camptorhynchus labradorius)
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Labrador Duck
Ducks, geese and swans.
Korean Crested Shelduck, Tadorna cristata (Northeast Asia, late 20th century?)
A relict species from Northeast Asia. Officially critically endangered due to recent unconfirmed reports.

PIED DUCK
[Labrador Duck. EXTINCT.]
FULIGULA LABRADORA, Lath.
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i have a male black east indian/labrador duck, and a female cayuga, & wondered if it were possible for them to mate?! can a call duck sized male mount a good sized cayuga?
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The Anatidae are represented in North America by sixty-nine species in twenty-three genera (including the extinct Labrador Duck).

But, perhaps like the Labrador Duck, which went extinct before its life history was understood, the Steller's Eider has been slowly declining for decades, for unknown reasons. Smallest of the world's four eider species, it is now the least numerous.

The great auk, once common on the British coasts, those of Denmark, the east coast of North America, then restricted to those of Newfoundland, Greenland and Iceland, has been killed by man, and the same fate has overtaken the Labrador duck, ...

See also: Duck, Eider, Goose, Finch, Crane