1. All About Ducks By: Cayse Perry

2. Black Ducks Black Ducks are a Puddle Duck which means that they eat things that are on the surface. They are a very big duck and they have a blue feather on their wing. They are a relative of the green head mallard. Black Duck breeds from the upper Mississippi River across to the northeastern United States. Black Ducks are a Puddle Duck which means that they eat things that are on the surface. They are a very big duck and they have a blue feather on their wing. They are a relative of the green head mallard. Black Duck breeds from the upper Mississippi River across to the northeastern United States.

3. Green Head Mallard The Green Head Mallard is the most recognize duck in America. It has a beautiful blue patch on it’s wing and it’s green head makes it stand out from the rest of the ducks. The hen mallard is brown so that she can sit on the nest and predators will not see here.

4. Wood duck Male Wood ducks are a very colorful duck. Their colors look like God painted them on. Male Wood ducks have a big crest on their head that leads from their eyes to the back of their head. Male Wood ducks have brown, green, and purple on there bodies. Female Wood ducks are very plain. They are brown and have a blue spot on there wing. Wood ducks Migrate on the Atlantic flyway which is the fly way that we live on.

5. Green Winged Teal The Green Winged Teal is the smallest North American duck. Male Green Winged Teal have a chestnut head and a iridescent green and purple patch extending from the eye to the nape of the neck. The Green Winged Teal is the smallest North American duck. Male Green Winged Teal have a chestnut head and a iridescent green and purple patch extending from the eye to the nape of the neck. Female Green Winged Teal are mottled brown with a dark brown line extending from the bill through the eye. Green Winged Teal breed from Alaska, across Canada, into the Maritime Provinces, south into central California, Utah, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

6. Cinnamon Teal Male Cinnamon Teal have a cinnamon red head, neck, breast, and belly. The back, rump, upper tail coverts and tail are a dull brown and under tail coverts are black. Female Cinnamon Teal are often confused with female Blue Winged Teal. They have a duller blue shoulder patch, an overall rustier color and are more heavily streaked. Cinnamon teal feed on aquatic plants in, especially rush seeds, pondweed seeds and leaves and salt grass seeds. They also feed on aquatic insects and mollusks.

7. Northern Shoveler The Northern Shoveler has a very distinctive shovel shaped bill that makes It easy to identify. A Male Northern Shovelers have an iridescent green head and neck, white chest and breast and chestnut belly and sides. Female Northern Shovelers have a light brownish head with a blackish crown and a brownish speckled body. Northern Shovelers migrate through the Pacific flyway which goes through California.

8. American Wigeon Both male and female Wigeon have bluish black bill. Male American wigeons have a white patch from the forehead to about half way down the crown and an iridescent green band from the eye to the back of the head. Female Wigeon have a gray head and a brown chest and side. Wigeon are grazers and forage on grasses and seeds in wet meadows and pastures.

9. Northern Pintail Pintails are long, slender and fast earning them the nickname greyhound of the air. Male pintails have a chocolate brown head with a white strip on each side of his neck extending up from the white breast and belly. Female Pintail have a dark brown upper body with a buff or gray head and lower body. The speculum is a dull brown or bronze. Northern Pintail are the first duck to migrate south in the fall and north in the spring. Pintails once were one of the most abundant ducks in North America but have suffered a disturbing decline since the 1950s. In 2009, the breeding population was estimated at 3.2 million birds, way below the North American Waterfowl Management Plan objective of 5.5 million.

10. West Indian Whistling Duck The West Indian Whistling Duck is a large duck with relatively long legs that extend beyond the tail in flight. The upperparts are mostly brown with pale edgings to the feathers; the rump and tail are blackish. The chest is more or less rufescent, with the posterior underparts white, spotted with black, on the sides. The bill is black and legs are greenish. The West Indian whistling duck is endemic to the Caribbean, and formerly widely distributed but now extinct in many parts of its range, decreasing almost everywhere. The West Indian whistling duck is common located in Cuba.

11. Ruddy duck Ruddy ducks are distinctive. They have a short, thick neck; chunky body, stubby wings and a fan-shaped tail composed of stiff feathers. Male Ruddy Ducks have a Blue bill they also have a white patch that extends from there bill to a little behind the neck all around that is black and they have a brown body and a black tail. Female Ruddy Ducks are all brown and have a black bill. Ruddy Ducks breed in the prairie region of North America, as well as the Intermountain West.

12. Canvasback Male Canvasback have many colors on their body. They have a dark red head and neck, a grayish back, and a brownish black tail. Female Canvasbacks are have a light brown head and neck with a dark brown chest and forehead. Canvasbacks breed in the Pirate pothole region of North America. Canvasbacks breed in the Pirate pothole region of North America.

13. Hooded Merganser The Hooded Merganser is the smallest of three merganser species. Male Hooded Merganser has a large white head and chest surrounded by black. The top of the head and back are all black and the chest breast and belly are white. Female Hooded Mergansers have a gray – brown neck and a reddish-brown crest. Hooded mergansers breed mostly in southeastern Alaska.

14. Red Heads redheads have a reddish head and upper neck with a black lower neck, foreback and breast. Male redheads have a reddish head and upper neck with a black lower neck, foreback and breast. Female Redheads have a reddish brown heads, necks, and breast with a buff white chin and throat and an indistinct eye ring and stripe behind the eye.

15. Duck calls Click on the link below to here all the calls of the ducks http://www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfowlgall ery.aspx http://www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfowlgall ery.aspx

16. Bufflehead Male Buffleheads have a white patch across the back of there heads that extends from cheek to cheek to form a bushy crest and the rest of the head is blackish with an iridescent green and purple sheen. Buffleheads have a brownish head and neck, except for an oval white patch that extends from below the eye back towards the nape of the neck. Female Buffleheads have a brownish head and neck, except for an oval white patch that extends from below the eye back towards the nape of the neck. Buffleheads breed from southern Alaska through the forested areas of western Canada, central Ontario and eastern Quebec. Female Buffleheads lay about nine eggs in each nest.

17. Common Goldeney Common Goldeney get there name from there yellow iris. Male Goldeneyes have blackish iridescent green heads with a white circular patch between the eye and the base of the bill. Female Goldeneyes have chocolate brown heads, a whitish neckband, and speckled gray back and sides. Goldeneyes breed Goldeneyes breed across the forested areas of Canada, Minnesota, Michigan, Alaska and the northeastern United States.

18. Spectacled Eider Male Spectacled Eiders are striking, with a pale green head, bright orange bill and the characteristic white spectacle-like patches around the eyes. Female Spectacled Eiders are a tawny color, similar to the female king and common Eider, with a gray-blue bill and light brown spectacles around their blue eyes. They feed on mollusks and crustaceans in shallow waters and may forage on pelagic or free-floating amphipods that are concentrated along the sea-water/pack-ice interface.

19. King Eiders Male King Eiders have a black lower back, rump, scapulars, tail coverts, breast, belly and sides. The tail is brown-black and the bill is orange, sweeping upward into an orange frontal shield. Female King Eiders are tawny-brown, barred with dusky brown chevrons "V" marks that can be similar in color to common eiders. The main places the King Eiders migrate are Alaska, Adelaide Peninsula that is in Canada.

20. Harlequin ducks Male Harlequin Ducks are very distinct and can be confused with no other waterfowl species. There mane color is a deep slate blue, enlivened by white stripes, crescents and spots on the head, neck and scapulars. The sides and flanks are chestnut colored. The bill is blue-gray with a pale nail and the legs and feet are grayish. Female Harlequin Ducks are brown with two patches of white one above the bill and the other is half way between there eyes and neck. They dive and catch crustaceans and mollusks, insects, small fish to feed on.