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Spot-billed Duck: Native of Asia, named for red spots at base of yellow-tipped black bill; however, the subspecies occurring in North America generally lacks these red spots.
Spot-billed Duck (Anas poecilorhyncha), also called Grey Duck, is a common breeding resident. Locally called Garm Pai or Gugral, this bird is found in the wetlands of India.
Spotbill, Spotbill Duck, Spotted-billed Duck, Yellow-nib Duck, Yellownib Duck, Oriental Mallard, Burmese Spotbill (haringtoni), Chinese Spotbill (zonorhyncha), Indian Spotbill, Chinese Spot-billed Duck (zonorhyncha), Indian Spot-billed Duck, ...
(2004): Asymmetric hybridization and sex-biased gene flow between Eastern Spot-billed Ducks (Anas zonorhyncha) and Mallards (A. platyrhynchos) in the Russian Far East. Auk 121 (3): 930-949. [English with Russian abstract] DOI: 10.
Duck, Spot-billed Anas poecilorhyncha Found: Asia
Photographed by Dick Daniels at Sylvan Heights
1, 2) Chinese Spot-billed Duck (A. poecilorhyncha zonorhyncha) 3, 4) Indian Spot-billed Duck (A. poecilorhyncha poecilorhyncha) ...
Less famous but just as striking is the match-up of Mallard and Spot-billed Duck: ...
 See also: Mallard, Duck, Pintail, Northern Pintail, Turtle
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