Falklands 'Logger Duck', Loggerhead'. Length: 61 - 74 cm (24 - 29 inches). Endemic resident breeding.

Loggers are common and widely distributed, seen mostly in pairs close to shore in sheltered bays and creeks and where there ae kelp beds. They aggressively defend their stretch of coastline territory. They feed by diving and upending in the kelp and shallow water taking marine invertebrates, mussels, crabs, shrimps and limpets.

Logger ducks are restricted to the Falkland Islands.

Flying Steamer Duck Tachyeres patachonicus

Falklands resident breeder 'Canvasback'. Not common but widely distributed. Length: 61 - 71 cm (24 - 28 inches), males noticebly larger. Slimmer and longer than the Falklands Flightless Steamer Duck. Flying Steamer ducks are uncommon and more likely to be seen on inland fresh water ponds and lakes. They look very like the Flightless Steamer duck but if a steamer duck is sighted on fresh water several kilometers inland it is more likely to be a Flying Steamer.

Also found on Southern South America including around the Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego, southern Patagonia and Chile.

Sources include: Falkland Islands State of the Environment Report 2008 Otley H, Munro G, Clausen A, Ingham B. A Field Guide to the Wildlife of The Falkland Islands and South Georgia - Ian J Strange, Guide to Birds of the Falkland Islands- Robin W. Woods.

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