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Anas platyrhynchos · Family Anatidae

Anas platyrhynchos

Family Anatidae

Order
Anseriformes
Family
Anatidae
GBIF occurrence records
33,300,873
Countries and territories with records
193
Mallard
Rolf Dietrich Brecher from Germany · Anas platyrhynchos (mixed pair) (32428014687).jpg · CC BY 2.0 · Rolf Dietrich Brecher from Germany · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.
Play song · Unknown · Janacek_-_kacena_divoka.ogg · CC BY-SA 1.0 · Unknown · CC BY-SA 1.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Recordings may be trimmed and re-encoded; photos are cropped and resized.

About this species

This species has 33,300,873 occurrence records from 193 countries and territories (GBIF, 21 October 2026). Most records come from the United States (59.1%), Canada (11.6%), Sweden (4.5%), the United Kingdom (3.5%) and the Netherlands (3.3%); together they account for 81.9% of the total. In the United States, this species accounts for 1.8% of all bird records in GBIF.

The scientific name Anas platyrhynchos combines the genus name Anas with the species epithet platyrhynchos. The Warbla app catalog lists 29 species of the genus Anas; apart from this one, those with the most GBIF records are Anas crecca, Anas acuta and Anas rubripes.

The catalog has GBIF record counts for 162 species of the family Anatidae. This species has the most records among them. Its record count is 26.2 times the family average (1,269,675). The family Anatidae belongs to the order Anseriformes, which has 166 species in the Warbla app catalog.

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