Editing Musk duck (section)

{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Distinguish|Muscovy duck}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2021}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Musk duck
| image = Musk Duck (21128221230).jpg
| image_caption = Male during breeding season
| image2 = Biziura lobata - Sandford.jpg
| image2_caption = Female
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 12 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2016 |title=''Biziura lobata'' |volume=2016 |page=e.T22679830A92831295 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2016-3.RLTS.T22679830A92831295.en |access-date=12 November 2021}}</ref>
| genus = Biziura
| species = lobata
| authority = ([[George Shaw (biologist)|Shaw]], 1796)
| range_map = Musk Duck.png
| range_map_caption  = Distribution of the musk duck
}}

The '''musk duck''' ('''''Biziura lobata''''') is a highly aquatic, stiff-tailed [[duck]] native to southern [[Australia]]. It is the only living member of the [[genus]] ''[[Biziura]]''. An [[Extinction|extinct]] relative, the [[New Zealand musk duck]] or de Lautour's duck (''B. delautouri''), once occurred on [[New Zealand]], but is only known from [[Prehistory|prehistoric]] [[subfossil]] bones. It was about 8% longer than the living [[species]], with a particularly large head.<ref name=Worthy/>

This animal derives its common name from the peculiar musky odour it emanates during the breeding season. Musk ducks are moderately common through the [[Murray–Darling basin|Murray-Darling]] and [[Cooper Creek]] basins, and in the wetter, fertile areas in the south of the continent: the southwest corner of [[Western Australia]], [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]], and [[Tasmania]].