Talk:Ruddy Duck

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[edit] AOU checklist

According to the FORTY-FIRST SUPPLEMENT TO THE AMERICAN ORNITHOLOGISTS' UNION CHECK-LIST OF NORTH AMERICAN BIRDS Auk: 114(3): July-Septembers 1997: 542-552

p. 97. The southern Andean Oxyura ferruginea (Eyton),Andean Duck,is separated as a species from O. jamaicensis, and the account for the latter is modified accordingly. This follows studies by Siegfried (1976) and Fjeldsa (1986).

So I am not sure that Oxyura ferruginea should redirect to here.Open2universe 00:45, 31 January 2006 (UTC)