the type-group of the shine-ducks exists from a quite irregular group of duck-birds. they lives preferentially in forest-areas, that adjoin at freshwater-seas, ponds and rivers, all. they are frequent here to find on the trees and adapt itself well to this habitat with its strong and pointed claws. No shine-duck was originally represented in Europe.
The name Glanzente is coloring green to lead back on the metallic, that is distinctive with almost all types.
The shine-ducks prefer tree-caves with few exceptions as Nistplätze; the nests contain very large egg-numbers.
Types Among all waterfowls the most strikingly, the bride-duck (Aix sponsa) from North America and this are colored relative Mandarinente (Aix galericulata) from Eastern Asia and Japan for it near. These types often are held because of its colorful plumage also with us as ornament-poultry. The males of both types differ very strongly, the differentiation of the females falls heavily. Although exactly the types of the duck-birds are inclined strongly to a Verbastardierung, the Mandarinente never crosses with other ducks in contrast to the bride-duck. Both types agree completely in its way of life.
The musk-duck (Cairina moschata), also Bisam or wart-duck, was introduced from South America in Europe by the Spanish conquerors as house-musk-duck and ousted many times the European house-ducks here.
The smaller representatives of this group, the dwarf-shine-ducks, occur in Africa, in the Indian area and in Australia with different types. The biggest shine-duck is the spore-goose or spur-goose (Plectropterus gambiensis) from Africa, that is fortified with a strong wing-spur. it seems to brood on the ground. In Africa's Ethiopian region, the shine-goose or hump-shine-duck (Sarcidiornis melanotus) are native at inner-seas and swamps. The big hump at the beak-base of the drake is a characteristic mark. Many males of the hump-shine-ducks live polygamously, a drake usually mates with three to four females. The nests consist of 4-8, often over 10 eggs.
The mane-goose (Chenonetta jubata) native in Australia and Tasmania lives in in pairs or in small troops the forested waiter-runs of the rivers. it lives like the real geese through grazing of grass-surfaces while the shine-ducks get its food broadly in wetlands or from the water: Swamp, and water-plants, small country, and water-animals.
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