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PATO PUNA

Pato Puna

 

 

 

 

Pato Puna:

NAME (S) LOCAL (S):
Pato puna

DISTRIBUTION IN CHILE:
Plateau region between Arica and Antofagasta

HABITAT:
Lakes, ponds and rivers of the highlands.

DESCRIPTION:
Length: 47 - 49 cms.
Top half of head black, this color passing under the eye and down the side of the neck. Cheek, lorums, low atrial area, throat and something creamy white neck. Backup coffee stained dark brown. Chest and flanks of the same pitch but with smaller spots. Rear flanks with dark brown transverse thin bars. Underwings gray. Long beak and strong hyacinth blue with black line at the apex.

Quite similar in color cappuccino Duck (Anas versicolor), but can not be confused in their environment and who are in very different areas. It also has the blue peak without the yellow hue of A. versicolor.

Usually in pairs, and very rarely in flocks, is an omnivorous bird, seeking their food among the floating vegetation, the muddy bottom or on the banks of ponds, lakes, rivers or bogs in plateau area.

Nests above water, on islets or nests of coots, hiding among the long grass nest. Goodall found some in Lake Cotacotani in the Andes to the interior of Arica, at an altitude of 4,800 meters. The clutch is usually 4 eggs, size 54 mm. x 39 mm. app.



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