#1359 · 🐦 birds

Pacific Black Duck

🇳🇱 Wenkbrauweend ·Anas superciliosa

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 outside Europe

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

what is it?

The Pacific black duck ( Anas superciliosa ) is a dabbling duck found in much of Indonesia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and many islands in the southwestern Pacific, reaching to the Caroline Islands in the north and French Polynesia in the east. It is usually called the grey duck in New Zealand, where it is also known by its Maori name, pārera .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 33,425iNaturalist observations
weight 1.1 kgadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
33,425 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs up to about 1.1 kg.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich Gmelin in 1789 (237 years ago).