Anatidae family birds

Anatidae are medium to large birds, typical water fowls with webbed feet including ducks, geese and swans. Bill lamellate in many species. Their feathers are excellent at shedding water due to special oils. Duck, eider and goose feathers and down have been popular for bedspreads, pillows, sleeping bags and coats. The members of this family have also been used for food. 148 species (Sibley-Monroe); 3 extinct, 46 genera, subfamilies and tribes defined in part on behavior. There is disagreement between experts on the number of subfamilies; some divide Anatidae in 6 and some in nine; Anatinae, Merginae, Anserinae, Dendrocygninae, Thalassorninae, Stictonettinae, Plectropterinae, Tadorninae, Oxyurinae.

Sub-family: Anatinae

Mandarin Duck Aix galericulata - vagrant

Northern Pintail Anas acuta - widespread winter visitor

Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata - widespread winter visitor

Common Teal Anas crecca - widespread winter visitor

Falcated Duck Anas falcata - sparse winter visitor

Baikal Teal Anas formosa - vagrant

Sunda Teal Anas gibberifrons - local resident

Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope - widespread winter visitor

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos - widespread winter visitor & local resident

Spot-billed Duck Anas poecilorhyncha - widespread resident

Garganey Anas querquedula - widespread winter visitor

Gadwall Anas strepera - widespread winter visitor

Baer's Pochard Aythya baeri - sparse winter visitor

Common Pochard Aythya ferina - widespread winter visitor

Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula - widespread winter visitor

Greater Scaup Aythya marila - sparse winter visitor

Ferruginous Pochard Aythya nyroca - widespread winter visitor & local resident

Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula - sparse winter visitor

White-winged Duck Cairina scutulata - local resident

Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis - vagrant

Marbled Teal Marmaronetta angustirostris - sparse winter visitor

Smew Mergellus albellus - sparse winter visitor

Common Merganser Mergus merganser - widespread winter visitor & local resident

Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator - vagrant

Red-crested Pochard Netta rufina - widespread winter visitor

Pink-headed Duck Rhodonessa caryophyllacea - local resident, now extinct

Sub-family: Anserinae

Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons - sparse winter visitor

Greylag Goose Anser anser - widespread winter visitor

Snow Goose Anser caerulescens - vagrant

Lesser White-fronted Goose Anser erythropus - vagrant
Bean Goose Anser fabalis - vagrant

Bar-headed Goose Anser indicus - widespread winter visitor & local resident

Comb Duck Sarkidiornis melanotos - widespread resident

Red-breasted Goose Branta ruficollis - vagrant

Cotton Pygmy-Goose Nettapus coromandelianus - widespread resident

Sub-family: Tadorninae

Ruddy Shelduck Tadorna ferruginea - widespread winter visitor & local resident

Common Shelduck Tadorna tadorna - widespread winter visitor

Sub-family: Cygninae

Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus - vagrant

Whooper Swan Cygnus cygnus - vagrant

Mute Swan Cygnus olor - vagrant

Sub-family: Oxyurinae

White-headed Duck Oxyura leucocephala - sparse winter visitor