Ducks, Geese and Swans (Anatidae)
Australian Blue-billed Duck (Oxyura australis) - HBW 1, p. 628
French: Erismature australe
German: Schwarzkinn Ruderente
Spanish: Malvasía Australiana
Other common names: Blue-billed Duck, Australian Stifftail/Blue-bill
Taxonomy: Oxyura Australis Gould, 1836, Swan River, Western Australia.
Considered by some to form superspecies with O. vittata. Monotypic.
Distribution: SW and SE Australia, Tasmania.
- Near Threatened Enlarge map
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A male displaying in the water with a female in the foreground. Locality Fyshwick Sewage Ponds, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 3 March 2006 3 years ago 20 sec 4.3 -
A male displaying in the water. Locality Fyshwick Sewage Ponds, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 3 March 2006 3 years ago 23 sec 4.2 -
A male displaying in the water. Locality Fyshwick Sewage Ponds, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 3 March 2006 3 years ago 30 sec 4.2 -
sleeping, swimming female, wakes up briefly Locality Herdsman Lake, Perth, Western Australia, Australia (Monotypic species)
Martin Kennewell 7 February 2011 2 years ago 36 sec 4 -
A male moving on the water. Locality Fyshwick Sewage Ponds, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Monotypic species)
Nick Talbot 3 March 2006 3 years ago 16 sec 4 -
Two males swimming and one of them diving. Locality Corowa Sewage Ponds, Corowa, New South Wales, Australia (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 26 October 2009 2 years ago 37 sec 3.7
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Male Blue-billed Duck
Locality Gatton, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2010 2 years ago 4.3 -
A male Blue-billed duck swimming.
Locality Tomato Lake, Kewdale, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Nicholas Tomney 4 January 2013 17 weeks ago 4.2 -
A female Blue-billed Duck swimming in a shallow pool.
Locality Tomato Lake, Kewdale, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Nicholas Tomney 11 January 2013 17 weeks ago 4 -
Blue-billed Duck male on water
Locality Gatton, Queensland, Australia
David Taylor 1 January 2010 2 years ago 4 -
A male blue-billed duck displaying on a small dam in Perth, Western Australia. Australia.
Locality Perth, Western Australia, Australia
David Nowell 10 July 2007 3 years ago 4 -
A male Blue-billed Duck creates turbulence while bathing.
Locality Tomato Lake, Kewdale, Perth, Western Australia, Australia
Nicholas Tomney 25 January 2013 14 weeks ago 3.3
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