Habitat
Tropical lagoons, lakes, dams with water-lilies and other semi-emergent waterplants. In the wet season shallower swamps of spike-rush and wild rice.
Green Pygmy Goose (Nettapus pulchellus) [XC97340]
by Marc Anderson from Lake Mitchell, Mount Molloy, Atherton Tableland Qld, Australia (call)
Green Pygmy Goose (Nettapus pulchellus) [XC337661]
by Bj\u00f6rn S\u00f6derlund from Kakadu National Park (near Kakadu), Northern Territory, Australia (call)
Nest
In a hollow of a tree, sometimes lined with down. Never on the ground.
Eggs (Guide)
8 - 12; hard-shelled, smooth, lustrous cream or white; blunt-ellipsoid; about 44 x 32 mm. Incubation: 26 days; by female.
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