Belize Biodiversity Information System NAME - Muscovy Duck FAMILY - Anatidae SCIENTIFIC NAME - Cairina moschata SYNONYMS - Anas moschata - Linnaeus, 1758 REFERENCES - 1 National abundance, Conservation or Economic Status Reference Hunted - subsistence or commercial 27 Uncommon: occur at low density in proper habitat. 27 Vulnerable in Belize 27 Threatened in Belize 26 Endangered in Belize 26 Resident, species present all year. 26 Resident, species present all year. 3 Hunted - subsistence or commercial 25 District Reference Belize 6 Corozal 10 Orange Walk 4 Stann Creek 7 Toledo 7 Administrative Unit Occurrence Temporal Reference Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Dry season 12 Shipstern Nature Reserve 10 Rio Bravo Conservation Area Permanent 23 Rio Bravo Conservation Area 16 Gallon Jug 15 Crooked Tree Wildlife Sanctuary Sighting Dry season 17 Bladen Nature Reserve Sighting Dry season 7 Cockscomb Basin Wildlife Sanctuary Accidental 22 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 13 Monkey Bay Wildlife Sanctuary 8 Community Baboon Sanctuary 20 Lamanai Archaeological Reserve 9 Mussel Creek Drainage (Proposed) Sighting Dry season 6 Whitewater Lagoon (Proposed) Collected as voucher Dry season 4 Private land, see comments Sighting Dry season 17 Private land, see comments Sighting Wet season 11 Private land, see comments Dry season 18 Private land, see comments Dry season 19 Government land Dry season 18 Monkey River Special Development Area Sighting August 21 Hydrologic Association Reference New River Lagoon 23 Belize River 20 Belize River 17 Mussel Creek 6 Bladen Branch 7 Sibun River 8 New River 9 Elevation Reference 1-200 m 21 1-200 m 23 1:50,000 Quadrangle Reference 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 17 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 9 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 15 17 30' to 17 45'; 89 00' to 89 15' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 45' to 89 00' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 19 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 20 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 23 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 18 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 21 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 10' to 88 30' 6 17 30' to 17 45'; 88 00' to 88 15' 14 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 22 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 30' to 88 45' 4 17 15' to 17 30'; 88 00' to 88 10' 14 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 10 16 45' to 17 00'; 88 30' to 88 45' 22 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 22 16 30' to 16 45'; 88 30' to 88 45' 7 18 15' to 18 30'; 88 00' to 88 15' 10 16 15' to 16 30'; 88 15' to 88 30' 21 16 00' to 16 15'; 89 00' to 89 15' 18 18 00' to 18 15'; 88 15' to 88 30' 12 17 45' to 18 00'; 89 00' to 89 15' 16 17 45' to 18 00'; 88 45' to 89 00' 11 Holdridge Life Zone Reference Subtropical wet 22 Subtropical moist 23 Subtropical moist 21 Subtropical moist 20 General Distribution Comments 26* Uncommon northern semideciduous moist forest. Uncommon southern moist-wet evergreen broadleaf forests. Uncommon coastal/low-lands savannas, inc. marshy areas. 3* Uncommon in northern hardwood forests, uncommon in southern hardwood forests, uncommon in coastal savannas. 22* Sp. not observed by Kamstra, reported by Ben Nottingham 19* Big Falls Rice Farm 18* Airport Camp; Big Falls Rice Farm; Blue Creek 17* Big Falls 11* Gold Button Ranch 10* Mainly Chacan Chac Mol 7* Forest Hill 4* shot, apparently by guide References 1 A.O.U. 1983. Checklist of North American Birds. 6th Ed. 2 A.O.U. 1985, 1987, 1989. 35th-37th Supplements. 3 Wood, D.S.,R. C. Leberman, and D. Weyer. 1986. Checklist of Birds of Belize. Carnegie Museum of Natural History Special Publication 12. 4 de Rahm, Patrick. 1990. Summary Report of the Freshwater Fishes and Aquatic Ecosystems Observed in Belize. ITCF unpublished report. 5 Miller, B. W., 1994. Belize Christmas Bird Counts, Twenty Year Summary. in prep. 6 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1987. Conservation of a Critical Marsh and Lowland habitat, Mussel Creek drainage system, Belize, C.A. Report to NYZS/Wildlife Conservation Society. 7 Brokaw, N. L. V., T. L. Lloyd-Evans. 1987. The Bladen Branch Wilderness. p.38-42. Unpublished report. 8 Anon. 1994. Monkey Bay Checklist of Birds. Unpublished list. 9 Noble, B., B. Stewart, J. Dillon. 1994. Lamanai Bird List, Mid-October 1993 - 16 March 1994. 10 Meerman, J. 1993. Checklist of the Birds of the Shipstern Nature Reserve, Occasional Papers of the Belize Natural History Society. 2(10). pp. 71-81. 11 Platt, S. 1993. Wildlife Survey of Gold Button Ranch, Belize. Unpublished report. 12 Reichelt, B., C. Philcox. 1994. DRAFT - Freshwater Creek Forest Reserve Natural History Studies. Unpublished report. 13 McDuffie, P. 1993. Personal Bird List for Belize: September 1, 1989 - December 15, 1993. Unpublished list. 14 Russell, S. M. 1964. A Distributional Study of the Birds of British Honduras. Ornithological Monographs No. 1, A.O.U. 15 Miller, B., C. Miller. 1994. A working checklist of the birds of Gallon Jug. Unpublished list. 16 Anon. 1994 (August). Working Checklist, Birds of Rio Bravo Conservation Management Area. Unpublished list. 17 Counsell, D.J.R., B. Etheridge. 1986. RAFOS Expedition to Belize. Unpublished report. 18 Hallchurch, T.T., compiler. 1982. Exercise King Vulture Belize 23 Feb.- 16 March. Unpub. report for the British Army Bird Watching Society. 19 Jenkins, P. G. 1982. The Royal Air Force Ornithological Society Belize Expedition, 1981. 80.pp Unpublished report. 20 James, D., J. Bider. 1993. Bird List: Community Baboon Sanctuary, 1989- 1993 (derived from banding & census data, field notes). Unpublished data. 21 Meerman, J.C. ed. 1995. Monkey River Special Development Area Stann Creek District, Belize. Belize Tropical Forest Studies Publication #5. Appendix: Bird List. Unpublished Technical report for B.E.S.T. 22 Kamstra, J. May 1987. An Ecological Survey of the Cockscomb Basin, Belize. Masters Thesis. York University, Ontario, Canada 23 Vallely, A. C., A. A. Whitman. 1996. The birds of Hill Bank, northern Belize. Unpublished report for Programme for Belize. 24 Miller, B. W. 1997. Belize Christmas Bird Count Summary 1970-1995. Data from American Birds Vol. 28-50 including 1973-1996. 25 Miller, B.W. 1959. Bird Species of Concern. pp. 56-64. in Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1995. National Protected Areas System Plan for Belize, Vol. 3. Zoological Report 236 p. NARMAP. 26 Garcia, J., S. Matola, M. Meadows, and C. Wright. 1994. A Checklist of the Birds of Belize. WWF-US. 35p. 27 Miller, B.W., C.M. Miller. 1997. Avian Risk Assessment for Belize, Species at Risk and of Conservation Concern. Report to Programme for Belize/TNC Wings of America Program.
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