{"id":43380,"date":"2013-07-25T03:02:55","date_gmt":"2013-07-25T01:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/falcated-duck-anas-falcata-nt\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T09:15:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T08:15:57","slug":"falcated-duck-anas-falcata-nt","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/threatened-bird-species\/nt-near-threatened\/falcated-duck-anas-falcata-nt\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcated Duck Anas falcata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although the population of this lovely duck is quite large, it faces considerable threat from hunting throughout its range, particularly in China. It breeds in the Russian Far East, extreme north Mongolia, China and Korea, and also in the northern half of Japan. It winters south to southern Japan, China and northern Thailand, Laos and Vietnam across to northern India and the southern Himalayan foothills.<\/p>\n<p>Factsheet:  Falcated Duck Anas falcata <\/p>\n\n<div class=\"ngg-galleryoverview\" id=\"ngg-gallery-390-43380\">\n\n\n\n    \t<!-- Thumbnails -->\n\t\t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3307\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/falcated-duck-anas-falcata-nt\/falcated-duck-male-in-flight-anas-falcata-john-a-wright-4042.jpg\" title=\"An adult male breeding Falcated Duck (Anas falcata) in flight in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"An adult male breeding Falcated Duck (Anas falcata) in flight in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" alt=\"Falcated Duck (male breeding) in Flight\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/falcated-duck-anas-falcata-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_falcated-duck-male-in-flight-anas-falcata-john-a-wright-4042.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Falcated Duck (male breeding) in Flight<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t\t<div id=\"ngg-image-3306\" class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail-box nggvote-33\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"ngg-gallery-thumbnail\" >\n\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/falcated-duck-anas-falcata-nt\/falcated-duck-male-anas-falcata-john-a-wright-4027.jpg\" title=\"An adult male breeding Falcated Duck (Anas falcata) in a lake in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" data-wpel-link=\"internal\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"An adult male breeding Falcated Duck (Anas falcata) in a lake in Nagasaki prefecture, Japan.\" alt=\"Falcated Duck (male breeding)\" src=\"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/gallery\/falcated-duck-anas-falcata-nt\/thumbs\/thumbs_falcated-duck-male-anas-falcata-john-a-wright-4027.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<span>Falcated Duck (male breeding)<\/span>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n \t\n\t<!-- Pagination -->\n \t<div class=\"ngg-clear\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although the population of this lovely duck is quite large, it faces considerable threat from hunting throughout its range, particularly in China. It breeds in the Russian Far East, extreme north Mongolia, China and Korea, and also in the northern half of Japan. It winters south to southern Japan, China and northern Thailand, Laos and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":837641,"parent":42877,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43380","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/43380\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/42877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}