6 Review of Madagascar’s wildfowl
©Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust
Wildfowl
(2013) 63: 5–23
Table 1.
Wildfowl of Madagascar.
Species
Date of
Range
IUCN
description (faunal region)
status 2013
Fulvous Whistling
Dendrocygna
1816
Nearctic
LC
Duck
bicolor
Neotropics
Afrotropics
Orient
Madagascar
White-faced
Dendrocygna
1766
Neotropics
LC
Whistling Duck
viduata
Afrotropics
Madagascar
White-backed Duck
Thalassornis
1838
Afrotropics
LC
leuconotus
T. l. insularis
1897
Madagascar endemic
EN
1
Greater Madagascan
2
Centrornis majori
1897
Madagascar endemic
EX
3
*
Sheldgoose
Lesser Madagascan
Alopochen
1897
Madagascar endemic
EX in
Sheldgoose
2
sirabensis
c
. 1400
4
Comb Duck
Sarkidiornis
1769
Neotropics
LC
melanotos
Afrotropics
Orient
Madagascar
African Pygmy Goose
Nettapus auritus
1783
Afrotropics
LC
Madagascar
Madagascar Teal
Anas bernieri
1860
Madagascar endemic
EN
Meller’s Duck
Anas melleri
1868
Madagascar endemic
EN
Red-billed Pintail
Anas
1789
Afrotropics
LC
erythrorhyncha
Madagascar
Hottentot Teal
Anas hottentota
1838
Afrotropics
LC
Madagascar
Madagascar Pochard
Aythya innotata
1894
Madagascar endemic
CR
Sources:
1
TWSG (2006);
2
Livezey (1997);
3
Goodman & Ramanamanjato (2007);
4
Goodman
& Rakotozafy (1997). * Date of extinction of
Centrornis
is unclear, but presumably > 1,000
years ago. Only one radio-carbon date (17,370 ± 90 BP) is available (see Burney
et al
. 2004).
IUCN classification: LC = least concern; CR = critically endangered; EX = extinct.
