Duck Identification Chart - Full Colour illustrations and Descriptions

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Duck Identification Chart - Full Colour illustrations and Descriptions

Duck Identification Chart - Full Colour illustrations and Descriptions

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Females are brown with a yellow streak along the tail. Both males and females have a green wing patch.

When they hatch, the female leads their young to where the food is so they can feed themselves. Sometimes, broods mix with other broods, particularly if the female leaves early or when broods are part of a territorial dispute among females.Native to China, this exotic species is now more numerous in Europe, where it escaped from wildfowl collections. The male has amazing orange ‘sails’ – actually modified wing feathers. Mandarin, Aix galericulata/Credit: Getty Shoveler Fun Fact: Female White-winged Scoters return to the nesting area where they were hatched. This behavior is called “Natal Philopatry.” 27. Barrow’s Goldeneye The most notable part of the Common Merganser’s appearance is their ruby-red serrated bill. They use this to catch and hold onto fish. The female is chocolate brown with paler flanks, and white underparts, and the crest is shorter. She also may have white patches around the base of the bill. The male in eclipse plumage looks like the female.

One female may lay up to eleven eggs, but the nest may contain up to twenty-six eggs, including those from other females. Incubation lasts only three weeks, and the young immediately head to the water after hatching. Fun Fact: Because Northern Pintails are agile and speedy birds, they are often hunted as a challenge in game shooting. 9. Blue-winged Teal Redheads breed in western Canada, Alaska, and western US states before migrating for winter to southern US states, the east coast of the US, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Britain is a major wintering area for wildfowl, attracting birds from Greenland in the west to Siberia in the east.In the Prairie Pothole Region, you can find the blue-winged teals in their breeding grounds in central North America. While interesting, Blue-winged teals migrate to Florida, Mexico, Central, and South America.

Females are generally brown all over with three recognizable white markings on their heads – a small patch on top of the eye, another small patch in front of their bill, and a small dot behind the eye. Just slightly smaller than the mallard and the female plumage is confusingly similar. The male plumage may seem plain but look closely at the breast and intricate ‘vermiculations’ can be seen. Some spend the summer with us but many more over winter. Common Eiders have six subspecies, four of which breed in North America and have slight differences between them. The female is pale brown with streaks overall and a darker belly, dark eyes, and a brown to orange bill. She has a blue wing patch. In eclipse plumage, the male is similar to the female but with redder plumage, and a grey head with a white crescent on the face.You can find Greater Scaups in shallow lakes and ponds during the breeding season. In winter, they migrate towards the coast and can be found in bays and shores, but also on the Great Lakes. They form huge ‘rafts’ of birds out at sea. Fun Fact: Hooded Mergansers are able to see underwater, which helps them when they forage for food. 22. Red-breasted Merganser During the breeding season, Barrow’s Goldeneyes favor aquatic insects and, in fact, will head to habitats that have no insect-eating fish around so they won’t have any competition for this type of prey. In winter, they will feast on crustaceans, mollusks, and small fish.

Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) Red-breasted Mergansers are similar in size to Common Mergansers but with a distinctive reddish-brown breast in males. They inhabit coastal areas, estuaries, and large inland lakes, feeding on fish, crustaceans, and aquatic insects. Teals feed by upending, dabbling, or grazing. It may also submerge its head completely, and occasionally dives. American Wigeons breed predominantly in Alaska, western Canada, and northwestern US states. They spend the winter in the southern and central US states and along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. They can all be grouped into three different groups (dabbling, diving or perching) depending on their behavior.

At first glance they appear to be a boring pale brown color but they have stunningly vibrant blue wings that are hidden away. Distribution: During the breeding season, they’re most common northwards from the Northumberland coast and off the west coast of Scotland. During the winter, their range expands to include areas along the east and south coasts, parts of the southwest coast and some areas of the Welsh coast.



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