#spatula querquedula

[nature-scares-me]

[takeapeck]

Lifers from this weekend (because I've been a fake birder and never left my local forest to look at birds): Gadwall, Northern lapwing, Northern shoveler, Little grebe, Garganey - and the question: why is the English language allergic to the word "duck"?

[flight-freeze-frame]

Garganey (Spatula querquedula)

© Pavel Štěpánek

[podartists]

Knäkente, Querquedula querquedula | Die Vögel (1913) | Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829-1884) | Biodiversity Heritage Library

[herpsandbirds]

Garganey (Spatula querquedula), male, family Anatidae, order Anseriformes, India

photograph by Vyankatesh S Metan

[ornithological]

male garganey (spatula querquedula), ireland

[new-dinosaurs]

Mionetta defossa Zelenkov, 2023 (new species)

(Forelimb bones of Mionetta defossa, from Zelenkov, 2023)

Meaning of name: defossa = buried [in Latin]

Age: Miocene (Aquitanian)

Where found: Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France and the Aral Formation, Aktobe and Kyzylorda, Kazakhstan

How much is known: Multiple forelimb bones. It is unknown whether any of these bones belonged to the same individuals.

Notes: M. defossa was a small duck, about the size of the extant garganey (Spatula querquedula). Two other species of Mionetta had previously been recognized, the Oligocene–Miocene M. blanchardi and the Miocene M. consobrina, both of which have been found in France (including Saint-Gérand-le-Puy), Czechia, and Germany, and were larger than M. defossa. A partial arm bone from the Miocene of Namibia has also been assigned to this genus.

The name "defossa" has been found written on 19th-Century museum labels for duck fossils from Saint-Gérand-le-Puy, and thus may have been intended to be used for one of the duck species at this locality. However, it was never formally coined as a scientific name for any of them until now.

Reference: Zelenkov, N.V. 2023. Small ducks (Aves: Anatidae) from the early–middle Miocene of Eurasia. 3. A revision of Mionetta natator (Milne-Edwards, 1867). Paleontological Journal 57: 659–670. doi: 10.1134/S0031030123060114

[birdwatcher-sketches]

Garganey (Spatula querquedula)

© William D. Kragh

[hello-birdies]

Spatula querquedula by Pete Blanchard

[mike13mt]

Garganey in flight, Radipole by chrisspracklen

[squawkoverflow]

A new variant has been added!

Garganey (Spatula querquedula) © Christiaan Andreas Sepp and Jan Christiaan Sepp

It hatches from big, brown, dark, distinctive, female, green, handsome, male, open, other, pale, reedy, similar, small, southern, striking, tidal, unobtrusive, white, and whitish eggs.

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[phototagebuch]

29.1.2022: Knäkente

[blogbirdfeather]

Garganey - Marreco (Spatula querquedula)

Vila Franca de Xira/Portugal (5/08/2020)

[Nikon CoolPix P900; 2000mm; 1/500s with Exposure Compensation -1; F6,5; 100 ISO]

[xeno-aligned]

mogai drawtober 2019 day 1: gay

a gay garganey (Spatula querquedula), using this flag recolour!

gay: a man attracted to other men, exclusively or not. also used as an umbrella term for any non-straight orientation.

[image description: a simplistic drawing of a duck in flight, coloured in the colours of the gay flag. end image description]

[podartists]

Spatula querquedula

Imagine: Biodiversity Heritage Library (Dominio public)

[herpsandbirds]

hi! lovely blog!! can i ask for some birds native to romania? im missing home nowadays

Romanian Birds:

Hey there, I think I can find a few Romanian Birds for you...

Common Cranes (Grus grus), family Gruidae, order Gruiformes

photograph by सुगम ताम्राकार

Great White Pelican (Pelecanus onocrotalus), family Pelicanidae, order Pelicaniformes

photograph by Kevin Vande Vusse

Eurasian Bullfinches (Pyrrhula pyrrhula), male, family Fringillidae, order Passeriformes

photograph by Francis C. Franklin 

European Bee-eaters (Merops apiaster), family Meropidae, order Coraciiformes, Green Lank, Romania

photograph by Doina Nok

Garganey (Spatula querquedula), male, family Anatidae, order Anseriformes

photograph by Kevin Chapman