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American Wigeon

SP
Mareca americana
아메리카홍머리오리
Included in KBR checklist
American Wigeon
Donna Dewhurst, USFWS · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain

American Wigeon (Mareca americana), known in Korean as 아메리카홍머리오리 has eligible documented records in 3 of South Korea's 17 first-level administrative regions in the current KoreAves evidence projection. The current supporting record sources are GBIF. These records document evidence coverage; regions without eligible records are not interpreted as biological absence, and the counts are not population or abundance estimates.

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Family Anatidae

Family per AviList v2025b (CC BY 4.0) · Avibase record ↗ · Evidence snapshot 2026-10-04

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