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Adult male Chubut steamer ducks have white heads with a bright yellow/orange bill with a black nail. Their webs and feet are yellow/orange with black claws. The rest of their plumage includes mostly grey bodies and white bellies. While the male is molting his bill turns to a duller yellow/orange. Adult female Chubut steamer ducks have brown heads and necks with small white line going from the back of the eye to the fore-neck. Their bills have a greenish/yellow color. The Adult female Chubut steamer duck looks very similar to the juvenile.
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When to see the Chubut Steamer Duck
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 9 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Chubut Steamer Duck
The map shades 1 country with regular records, and 1 more in a lighter tone where the bird turns up only as a stray. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
Recorded as a rare visitor in Chile.
About the Chubut Steamer Duck
The Chubut steamer duck or white-headed flightless steamer duck is a flightless duck endemic to Argentina.
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Easily confused with
Falkland Steamer DuckTachyeres brachypterusThe Falkland steamer duck measures between 61 and 74 cm in length and has a wingspan of 84 to 94 cm.
Fuegian Steamer DuckTachyeres pteneresThis is the largest of the steamer duck species.
Flying Steamer DuckTachyeres patachonicusThough they are the smallest of the four Tachyeres species, flying steamer ducks share similar plumage traits with other steamer ducks including female brown head and neck feathers with white stripes stretching from their eyes to the napes of their necks, and brown-gray gradient body feathers.
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