Marbled Duck (Marmaronetta angustirostris)
About the Marbled Duck
The marbled duck or marbled teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris) is a medium-sized species of duck from southern Europe, northern Africa, and western and central Asia. The scientific name, Marmaronetta angustirostris, comes from the Greek marmaros, marbled and netta, a duck, and Latin angustus, narrow or small and -rostris billed.
A real field recording of the Marbled Duck. Press play and focus on the rhythm and pitch of each phrase.
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Our streaming copies are mirrored from the original xeno-canto file and transcoded to 96 kbps mono — a modification, so we note it here; the licence for each recording is named in its credit below.
1 recording on this page · licensed CC BY-SA ×1 · mirrored on this server, free for commercial reuse · recorded in Italy, Morocco, Spain · xeno-canto lists 11 recordings for this species in total.
Other birds in this region
- Alpine ChoughPyrrhocorax graculusrecording
- Black KiteMilvus migransrecording
- Black RedstartPhoenicurus ochrurosrecording
- Black-crowned Night HeronNycticorax nycticoraxrecording
- Black-tailed GodwitLimosa limosarecording
- Black-winged StiltHimantopus himantopusrecording
These are the birds recorded alongside it, not close relatives — the site holds no other member of its genus or family yet.