| Biological classification: |
- kingdom: Animalia
- - phylum: Chordata
- -- class: Aves
- --- order: Anseriformes
- ---- family: Anatidae
- ----- species: Nettapus auritus
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| Characteristics: | omnivore; body-length: 33 cm, the rump is covered with orange plumage; the head, neck and back are dark green; the face is white with a yellow bill |
| Countries: |
- BW
- Botswana
- CD
- Congo, The Democratic Republic of the
- ET
- Ethiopia
- GH
- Ghana
- GM
- Gambia
- KE
- Kenya
- MG
- Madagascar
- NA
- Namibia
- SD
- Sudan
- SN
- Senegal
- TG
- Togo
- TZ
- Tanzania, United Republic of
- UG
- Uganda
- ZA
- South Africa
- ZM
- Zambia
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| Ecoregions: |
- AT0108
- East African montane forests
- AT0111
- Eastern Guinean forests
- AT0112
- Ethiopian montane forests
- AT0119
- Maputaland coastal forest mosaic
- AT0202
- Madagascar dry deciduous forests
- AT0704
- Central Zambezian Miombo woodlands
- AT0705
- East Sudanian savanna
- AT0707
- Guinean forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0713
- Sahelian Acacia savanna
- AT0715
- Somali Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets
- AT0721
- Victoria Basin forest-savanna mosaic
- AT0722
- West Sudanian savanna
- AT0725
- Zambezian and Mopane woodlands
- AT0726
- Zambezian Baikiaea woodlands
- AT0907
- Zambezian flooded grasslands
- AT1007
- Ethiopian montane grasslands and woodlands
- AT1008
- Ethiopian montane moorlands
- AT1402
- East African mangroves
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| References: | Sinclair 1994: 68 |
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