Habitat
Slow-flowing rivers with pools and adjacent flooded grasslands, permanent and seasonal lakes, streams, marshes, brackish coastal lagoons, artificial reservoirs associated with mining, dams, salt pans, sewage works, open water of estuaries. Avoids fast-flowing water.
Food
Omnivorous. Fruits, seeds, roots, leaves and stems of aquatic and terrestrial plants, aquatic insects and their larvae, crustaceans, molluscs, agricultural grains such as maize and sunflower seeds.
Yellow-billed Duck (Anas undulata) [XC277059]
by Peter Boesman from Lake Awassa, Ethiopia (call)
Yellow-billed Duck (Anas undulata) [XC379072]
by Lynette Rudman from Port Alfred, Western District, Eastern Cape, South Africa (call)
Nest
Composed of grass, rushes and reed stems, located on the ground and usually protected and screened from above by dense, overhanging vegetation. Some nests may have tunnel access through the surrounding grass.
BirdLife International Species Factsheet