Ducks and Mallards of Macquarie Island

• Other Authors: Knowles Kerry (isOwnedBy)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Polar Information Commons
• Subjects: EARTH SCIENCE - BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION - ANIMALS_VERTEBRATES; EARTH SCIENCE - BIOSPHERE - ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS - COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; EARTH SCIENCE - BIOSPHERE - ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS - SPECIES_POPULATION INTERACTIONS; BIOTA; New Zealand; Olor; Pacific; Auckland Islands; Macquarie Island
• Online Access: https://researchdata.ands.org.au/ducks-mallards-macquarie-island/13949; http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AADC-00031

Early reference to waterfowl on Macquarie Island and observations made by ANARE expeditioners between 1949 and 1985 are reviewed and discussed. Apart from a unique (perhaps erroneous) record of a mute swan Cygnus olor, information is restricted to the Pacific black duck Anas superciliosa, the grey t...