issg Database: Impact Information for Oxyura jamaicensis

Oxyura jamaicensis (bird)

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General Impact

Oxyura jamaicensis (ruddy duck) threatens the globally endangered white-headed duck (see Oxyura leucocephala in IUCN Red List of Threatened Species) with extinction through introgressive hybridisation and competition.

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