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Masked duck
The masked duck (''Nomonyx dominicus'') is a tiny stiff-tailed duck ranging through the tropical Americas. They are found from Mexico to South America and also in the Caribbean. Primarily non-migratory, masked ducks are reported as very uncommon vagrants in the southernmost United States, along the Mexican border and in Florida. As of 2000 the conservation status for masked ducks in Taxes is 3,800 birds.〔 On April 1, 1962, it was recorded from Lowndes County, Georgia where it was photographed by Alexander Wetmore.〔
The only member of the genus ''Nomonyx'', it is intermediate between the rather primitive black-headed duck (''Heteronetta'') and the very apomorphic true stifftails. It is sometimes included with the latter in the genus ''Oxyura'', but apparently the masked ducks of our time are the descendants of a missing link in the Oxyurinae evolution, having changed but little for millions of years.〔〔
Breeding adult males have a rust-colored body with a black face and mottled wings. Adult females, winter males and juveniles have a barred brownish gray body, with two horizontal darkly colored stripes running through the buffy colored face.
These ducks mainly feed on seeds, roots and leaves of aquatic plants. They also eat aquatic insects and crustaceans. They feed by diving. Masked ducks breed in any freshwater water body with marsh vegetation and surrounded by heavy tree cover. They also occur in mangrove swamps. These ducks are usually very secretive, but they are not rare and not considered threatened by the IUCN.〔
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