Birds of the World

    ANSERIFORMES: Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, Swans)  
Genus: Tachyeres (4 species)

Tachyeres is a genus of flightless (all but one) ducks found in the southern part of South America. Called 'steamer' because of behaviour of swimming with wings flapping resembling a steamer boat.


Falkland Steamer Duck
Falkland Steamer Duck (Tachyeres brachypterus) Male
Range: SA: Falkland Is.
Falkland Islands  
   
Photograph by Aaron Maizlish     Copyright and usage info

Falkland Steamer Duck
Falkland Steamer Duck (Tachyeres brachypterus) Female
Range: SA: Falkland Is.
Carcass Island, Falkland Islands  
   
Photograph by Tropical Birding (Nick Athanas)   © All Rights Reserved.


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Chubut Steamer Duck (Tachyeres leucocephalus) Vulnerable
Range: SA: coastal nc to s Chubut Province (se Argentina)
   


Note white head. Until recently considered a subspecies of the Fuegian Steamer Duck.

Flying Steamer Duck
Flying Steamer Duck (Tachyeres patachonicus) with chicks
Range: SA: s Chile, s Argentina and (perhaps) Falkland Is.
Ushuaia, Argentina  
   
Photograph by Pablo Caceres Contreras     Copyright and usage info


Fuegian Steamer Duck
Fuegian Steamer Duck (Tachyeres pteneres)
Range: SA: coastal s Chile and s Argentina
 
   
Photograph by Pablo Caceres Contreras     Copyright and usage info

Also known as the Flightless Steamer Duck.


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