Wood Duck Photo Gallery - All About Birds
WEBMale is spectacularly colored, with a glossy green head, chestnut breast, buffy sides, reddish bill, and red eyes. Wood Ducks have a unique shape among ducks—a boxy, crested head, a thin neck, and a long, broad tail.
10 Stunning Wood Duck Pictures and Tips for Capturing Your …
WEBPicture a duck with prominent red eyes encircled by white cap outline; an iridescent green head with metallic purple feathers on its crest; strikingly intricate “eye” ring markings around its eyes in shades of white and rich blue; chestnut-red sides merging into glossy black double lines on both flanks, separating deep violet belly from ...
Before You Shoot: Mastering Waterfowl Identification - Ducks Unlimited
WEBJul 22, 2024 · Wood ducks are found in riparian areas, wooded swamps, and freshwater marshes. Redheads, by contrast, are usually seen in non-forested areas of open water. Next, Coluccy advises looking at where the ducks are …
Wood Duck - National Wildlife Federation
WEBThe male wood duck is one of the most recognizable birds in the United States. The markings of the male wood duck include red eyes and a red bill with a yellow patch at the base. The top of the bird's head and crest are a metallic purplish-green.
Know Your Ducks - Hardcore™ Waterfowl
WEBApr 8, 2024 · Identifying ducks on the wing requires knowing a particular duck’s silhouette, flock and flight patterns, size, coloration, and calls. Using these visual and audio clues can help you positively identify ducks even under less-than-perfect conditions.
Wood Duck | Audubon Field Guide
WEBBeautiful and unique, this duck of woodland ponds and river swamps has no close relatives, except for the Mandarin Duck of eastern Asia. Abundant in eastern North America in Audubon's time, the Wood Duck population declined seriously during the late 19th century because of hunting and loss of nesting sites.
Wood Duck Overview, All About Birds, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
WEBThe Wood Duck is one of the most stunningly pretty of all waterfowl. Males are iridescent chestnut and green, with ornate patterns on nearly every feather; the elegant females have a distinctive profile and delicate white pattern around the eye.
WEC 168/UW180: The Wood Duck - EDIS
WEBMale wood ducks have larger chins than female wood ducks, and they have finger-like extensions on the chin and neck. Like most duck species, the male is more colorful, with a red bill and eyes. Females are mostly gray and brown with a white ring around their eyes.
Wood Duck Facts - NatureMapping
WEBThe wood duck, as its name implies, requires wooded cover for nesting. They prefer swamps and even upland forests close to freshwater wetlands, ponds, creeks, and rivers. This species is common in lowland forested areas with adjacent open water on both sides of the Cascade crest.
Wood Duck - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
WEBOften considered one of the most beautiful of duck species in North America, the male is multicolored with iridescent greens, blues and purples and have a bold red bill. True to their name, this species is found in or near forested swamps where …
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