Fun Pygmy Goose Facts For Kids
Pygmy geese are a kind of tiny “perching duck” of the genus Nettapus that breed in the Old World tropics. They are the tiniest of the wildfowl. Because “perching ducks” constitute a paraphyletic group, they must be relocated. The previously believed link with the dabbling duck subfamily Anatinae has been called into doubt, and it appears that they constitute a lineage in ancient Gondwanan radiation of waterfowl, with which they have unknown relationships....