Anas platyrhynchos

(*Anas platyrhynchos*)
 Kingdom:

## Subspecies

* *A. p. conboschas* (Greenland mallard)
* *A. p. domesticus* (Domestic duck)
* *A. p. platyrhynchos* (Nominate subspecies)

## Physical Description

Females: Mottled brown, Purple-blue (markings)

## Habitats

### Suitable

* 5.1 Permanent rivers
* 5.2 Seasonal rivers
* 5.3 Shrub wetlands
* 5.4 Swamps and peatlands
* 5.5 Permanent lakes
* 5.6 Seasonal lakes
* 5.7 Permanent marshes
* 5.8 Seasonal marshes
* 5.10 Tundra wetlands
* 5.13 Inland deltas
* 9.10 Estuaries
* 13.4 Coastal saline lakes
* 13.5 Coastal freshwater lakes
* 14.1 Arable lands
* 14.2 Pasturelands
* 14.4 Rural gardens
* 14.5 Urban areas
* 15.1 Water storage areas
* 15.2 Ponds

## Distribution

### Ecozones

* Afrotropic
* Indomalaya
* Nearctic
* Neotropic
* Oceania
* Palearctic

### Terrestrial Ecoregions

* AT0112 Ethiopian montane forests
* AT0705 East Sudanian savanna
* AT0713 Sahelian Acacia savanna
* AT0715 Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
* AT1007 Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands
* AT1302 Arabian Peninsula coastal fog desert
* AT1305 Ethiopian xeric grasslands and shrublands
* AT1306 Gulf of Oman desert and semi-desert
* AT1317 Red Sea coastal desert
* AT1320 Southwestern Arabian foothills savanna
* IM0105 Brahmaputra Valley semi-evergreen forests
* IM0115 Himalayan subtropical broadleaf forests
* IM0120 Lower Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
* IM0124 Malabar Coast moist forests
* IM0126 Meghalaya subtropical forests
* IM0134 North Western Ghats moist deciduous forests
* IM0142 Orissa semi-evergreen forests
* IM0166 Upper Gangetic Plains moist deciduous forests
* IM0170 Nansei Islands subtropical evergreen forests
* IM0171 South Taiwan monsoon rain forests
* IM0172 Taiwan subtropical evergreen forests
* IM0201 Central Deccan Plateau dry deciduous forests
* IM0205 Irrawaddy dry forests
* IM0206 Kathiawar-Gir dry deciduous forests
* IM0207 Narmada Valley dry deciduous forests
* IM0301 Himalayan subtropical pine forests
* IM0401 Eastern Himalayan broadleaf forests
* IM0403 Western Himalayan broadleaf forests
* IM0501 Eastern Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
* IM0502 Western Himalayan subalpine conifer forests
* IM0701 Terai-Duar savanna and grasslands
* IM0901 Rann of Kutch seasonal salt marsh
* IM1301 Deccan thorn scrub forests
* IM1302 Indus Valley desert
* IM1303 Northwestern thorn scrub forests
* IM1304 Thar desert
* IM1401 Godavari-Krishna mangroves
* IM1403 Indus River Delta-Arabian Sea mangroves
* NA0201 Sonoran-Sinaloan transition subtropical dry forest
* NA0303 Sierra Madre Oriental pine-oak forests
* NA0401 Allegheny Highlands forests
* NA0402 Appalachian mixed mesophytic forests
* NA0403 Appalachian-Blue Ridge forests
* NA0404 Central U.S. hardwood forests
* NA0405 East Central Texas forests
* NA0406 Eastern forest-boreal transition
* NA0407 Eastern Great Lakes lowland forests
* NA0408 Gulf of St. Lawrence lowland forests
* NA0409 Mississippi lowland forests
* NA0410 New England-Acadian forests
* NA0411 Northeastern coastal forests
* NA0412 Ozark Mountain forests
* NA0413 Southeastern mixed forests
* NA0414 Southern Great Lakes forests
* NA0415 Upper Midwest forest-savanna transition
* NA0416 Western Great Lakes forests
* NA0417 Willamette Valley forests
* NA0501 Alberta Mountain forests
* NA0502 Alberta-British Columbia foothills forests
* NA0503 Arizona Mountains forests
* NA0504 Atlantic coastal pine barrens
* NA0505 Blue Mountains forests
* NA0506 British Columbia mainland coastal forests
* NA0507 Cascade Mountains leeward forests
* NA0508 Central and Southern Cascades forests
* NA0509 Central British Columbia Mountain forests
* NA0510 Central Pacific coastal forests
* NA0511 Colorado Rockies forests
* NA0512 Eastern Cascades forests
* NA0513 Florida sand pine scrub
* NA0514 Fraser Plateau and Basin complex
* NA0515 Great Basin montane forests
* NA0516 Klamath-Siskiyou forests
* NA0517 Middle Atlantic coastal forests
* NA0518 North Central Rockies forests
* NA0519 Northern California coastal forests
* NA0520 Northern Pacific coastal forests
* NA0521 Northern transitional alpine forests
* NA0522 Okanagan dry forests
* NA0523 Piney Woods forests
* NA0524 Puget lowland forests
* NA0527 Sierra Nevada forests
* NA0528 South Central Rockies forests
* NA0529 Southeastern conifer forests
* NA0530 Wasatch and Uinta montane forests
* NA0601 Alaska Peninsula montane taiga
* NA0602 Central Canadian Shield forests
* NA0603 Cook Inlet taiga
* NA0604 Copper Plateau taiga
* NA0605 Eastern Canadian forests
* NA0607 Interior Alaska-Yukon lowland taiga
* NA0608 Mid-Continental Canadian forests
* NA0609 Midwestern Canadian Shield forests
* NA0610 Muskwa-Slave Lake forests
* NA0611 Newfoundland Highland forests
* NA0612 Northern Canadian Shield taiga
* NA0613 Northern Cordillera forests
* NA0614 Northwest Territories taiga
* NA0615 South Avalon-Burin oceanic barrens
* NA0616 Southern Hudson Bay taiga
* NA0617 Yukon Interior dry forests
* NA0801 California Central Valley grasslands
* NA0802 Canadian Aspen forests and parklands
* NA0803 Central and Southern mixed grasslands
* NA0804 Central forest-grasslands transition
* NA0805 Central tall grasslands
* NA0806 Edwards Plateau savanna
* NA0807 Flint Hills tall grasslands
* NA0808 Montana Valley and Foothill grasslands
* NA0809 Nebraska Sand Hills mixed grasslands
* NA0810 Northern mixed grasslands
* NA0811 Northern short grasslands
* NA0812 Northern tall grasslands
* NA0813 Palouse grasslands
* NA0814 Texas blackland prairies
* NA0815 Western short grasslands
* NA1101 Alaska-St. Elias Range tundra
* NA1102 Aleutian Islands tundra
* NA1103 Arctic coastal tundra
* NA1104 Arctic foothills tundra
* NA1106 Beringia lowland tundra
* NA1107 Beringia upland tundra
* NA1108 Brooks-British Range tundra
* NA1111 Interior Yukon-Alaska alpine tundra
* NA1112 Kalaallit Nunaat high arctic tundra
* NA1113 Kalaallit Nunaat low arctic tundra
* NA1116 Ogilvie-MacKenzie alpine tundra
* NA1117 Pacific Coastal Mountain icefields and tundra
* NA1118 Torngat Mountain tundra
* NA1201 California coastal sage and chaparral
* NA1202 California interior chaparral and woodlands
* NA1203 California montane chaparral and woodlands
* NA1303 Chihuahuan desert
* NA1304 Colorado Plateau shrublands
* NA1305 Great Basin shrub steppe
* NA1307 Meseta Central matorral
* NA1308 Mojave desert
* NA1309 Snake-Columbia shrub steppe
* NA1310 Sonoran desert
* NA1311 Tamaulipan matorral
* NA1312 Tamaulipan mezquital
* NA1313 Wyoming Basin shrub steppe
* NT0120 Cuban moist forests
* NT0164 South Florida rocklands
* NT0213 Cuban dry forests
* NT0228 Sinaloan dry forests
* NT0301 Bahamian pine mosaic
* NT0304 Cuban pine forests
* NT0902 Cuban wetlands
* NT0904 Everglades
* NT1306 Cuban cactus scrub
* NT1402 Bahamoan-Antillean mangroves
* OC0106 Hawaii tropical moist forests
* OC0202 Hawaii tropical dry forests
* OC0701 Hawaii tropical high shrublands
* OC0702 Hawaii tropical low shrublands
* OC0703 Northwestern Hawaii scrub
* PA0401 Appenine deciduous montane forests
* PA0402 Atlantic mixed forests
* PA0404 Balkan mixed forests
* PA0405 Baltic mixed forests
* PA0406 Cantabrian mixed forests
* PA0407 Caspian Hyrcanian mixed forests
* PA0408 Caucasus mixed forests
* PA0409 Celtic broadleaf forests
* PA0410 Central Anatolian deciduous forests
* PA0412 Central European mixed forests
* PA0413 Central Korean deciduous forests
* PA0416 Crimean Submediterranean forest complex
* PA0418 Dinaric Mountains mixed forests
* PA0419 East European forest steppe
* PA0420 Eastern Anatolian deciduous forests
* PA0421 English Lowlands beech forests
* PA0422 Euxine-Colchic broadleaf forests
* PA0423 Hokkaido deciduous forests
* PA0426 Manchurian mixed forests
* PA0427 Nihonkai evergreen forests
* PA0428 Nihonkai montane deciduous forests
* PA0429 North Atlantic moist mixed forests
* PA0430 Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
* PA0431 Pannonian mixed forests
* PA0432 Po Basin mixed forests
* PA0433 Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests
* PA0435 Rodope montane mixed forests
* PA0436 Sarmatic mixed forests
* PA0438 South Sakhalin-Kurile mixed forests
* PA0439 Southern Korea evergreen forests
* PA0440 Taiheiyo evergreen forests
* PA0441 Taiheiyo montane deciduous forests
* PA0443 Ussuri broadleaf and mixed forests
* PA0444 Western Siberian hemiboreal forests
* PA0445 Western European broadleaf forests
* PA0446 Zagros Mountains forest steppe
* PA0501 Alps conifer and mixed forests
* PA0502 Altai montane forest and forest steppe
* PA0503 Caledon conifer forests
* PA0504 Carpathian montane forests
* PA0505 Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests
* PA0506 East Afghan montane conifer forests
* PA0510 Hokkaido montane conifer forests
* PA0511 Honshu alpine conifer forests
* PA0512 Khangai Mountains conifer forests
* PA0513 Mediterranean conifer and mixed forests
* PA0515 Northern Anatolian conifer and deciduous forests
* PA0519 Sayan montane conifer forests
* PA0520 Scandinavian coastal conifer forests
* PA0521 Tian Shan montane conifer forests
* PA0601 East Siberian taiga
* PA0602 Iceland boreal birch forests and alpine tundra
* PA0603 Kamchatka-Kurile meadows and sparse forests
* PA0604 Kamchatka-Kurile taiga
* PA0605 Northeast Siberian taiga
* PA0606 Okhotsk-Manchurian taiga
* PA0607 Sakhalin Island taiga
* PA0608 Scandinavian and Russian taiga
* PA0609 Trans-Baikal conifer forests
* PA0610 Ural montane forests and tundra
* PA0611 West Siberian taiga
* PA0801 Alai-Western Tian Shan steppe
* PA0802 Altai steppe and semi-desert
* PA0803 Central Anatolian steppe
* PA0804 Daurian forest steppe
* PA0805 Eastern Anatolian montane steppe
* PA0806 Emin Valley steppe
* PA0808 Gissaro-Alai open woodlands
* PA0809 Kazakh forest steppe
* PA0810 Kazakh steppe
* PA0811 Kazakh upland
* PA0812 Middle East steppe
* PA0813 Mongolian-Manchurian grassland
* PA0814 Pontic steppe
* PA0815 Sayan Intermontane steppe
* PA0816 Selenge-Orkhon forest steppe
* PA0817 South Siberian forest steppe
* PA0818 Tian Shan foothill arid steppe
* PA0901 Amur meadow steppe
* PA0903 Nenjiang River grassland
* PA0904 Nile Delta flooded savanna
* PA0905 Saharan halophytics
* PA0906 Tigris-Euphrates alluvial salt marsh
* PA0907 Suiphun-Khanka meadows and forest meadows
* PA1001 Altai alpine meadow and tundra
* PA1002 Central Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
* PA1006 Karakoram-West Tibetan Plateau alpine steppe
* PA1007 Khangai Mountains alpine meadow
* PA1008 Kopet Dag woodlands and forest steppe
* PA1010 Mediterranean High Atlas juniper steppe
* PA1011 North Tibetan Plateau-Kunlun Mountains alpine desert
* PA1014 Pamir alpine desert and tundra
* PA1015 Qilian Mountains subalpine meadows
* PA1016 Sayan Alpine meadows and tundra
* PA1017 Southeast Tibet shrub and meadows
* PA1018 Sulaiman Range alpine meadows
* PA1019 Tian Shan montane steppe and meadows
* PA1020 Tibetan Plateau alpine shrub and meadows
* PA1022 Yarlung Tsangpo arid steppe
* PA1103 Cherskii-Kolyma mountain tundra
* PA1105 Kamchatka Mountain tundra and forest tundra
* PA1110 Scandinavian montane birch forest and grasslands
* PA1112 Trans-Baikal Bald Mountain tundra
* PA1201 Aegean and Western Turkey sclerophyllous and mixed forests
* PA1202 Anatolian conifer and deciduous mixed forests
* PA1205 Crete Mediterranean forests
* PA1206 Cyprus Mediterranean forests
* PA1207 Eastern Mediterranean conifer-sclerophyllous-broadleaf forests
* PA1208 Iberian conifer forests
* PA1209 Iberian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
* PA1210 Illyrian deciduous forests
* PA1211 Italian sclerophyllous and semi-deciduous forests
* PA1212 Mediterranean acacia-argania dry woodlands and succulent thickets
* PA1213 Mediterranean dry woodlands and steppe
* PA1214 Mediterranean woodlands and forests
* PA1215 Northeastern Spain and Southern France Mediterranean forests
* PA1216 Northwest Iberian montane forests
* PA1217 Pindus Mountains mixed forests
* PA1218 South Appenine mixed montane forests
* PA1219 Southeastern Iberian shrubs and woodlands
* PA1220 Southern Anatolian montane conifer and deciduous forests
* PA1221 Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
* PA1222 Tyrrhenian-Adriatic sclerophyllous and mixed forests
* PA1302 Alashan Plateau semi-desert
* PA1303 Arabian Desert and East Sahero-Arabian xeric shrublands
* PA1305 Azerbaijan shrub desert and steppe
* PA1306 Badghyz and Karabil semi-desert
* PA1308 Caspian lowland desert
* PA1309 Central Afghan Mountains xeric woodlands
* PA1310 Central Asian northern desert
* PA1311 Central Asian riparian woodlands
* PA1312 Central Asian southern desert
* PA1314 Eastern Gobi desert steppe
* PA1315 Gobi Lakes Valley desert steppe
* PA1316 Great Lakes Basin desert steppe
* PA1317 Junggar Basin semi-desert
* PA1318 Kazakh semi-desert
* PA1320 Mesopotamian shrub desert
* PA1321 North Saharan steppe and woodlands
* PA1324 Qaidam Basin semi-desert
* PA1325 Red Sea Nubo-Sindian tropical desert and semi-desert
* PA1326 Registan-North Pakistan sandy desert
* PA1327 Sahara desert
* PA1328 South Iran Nubo-Sindian desert and semi-desert
* PA1329 South Saharan steppe and woodlands