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Canada goose Ring-necked duck. Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These birds are adapted to an aquatic existence with webbed feet, bills which are flattened to a greater or lesser extent, and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to special oils.
When do different birds migrate in Ohio? Waterfowl species are usually the first to begin the long journey north. Those flights depart in mid-March. Shorebirds, like great blue herons and great ...
Ohio: Northern cardinal: Cardinalis cardinalis: 1933 [41] Oklahoma: Scissor-tailed flycatcher: Tyrannus forficatus: 1951 [42] Oregon: Western meadowlark (state songbird) [a] Sturnella neglecta: 1927 [44] 2017 [45] Pennsylvania: Ruffed grouse [b] Bonasa umbellus: 1931 Puerto Rico: Puerto Rican spindalis (de facto) Spindalis portoricensis — [47 ...
The white-tailed deer is the state mammal of Ohio. This list of mammals of Ohio includes a total of 70 mammal species recorded in the state of Ohio. [1] Of these, three (the American black bear, Indiana bat, and Allegheny woodrat) are listed as endangered in the state; four (the brown rat, black rat, house mouse, and wild boar) are introduced; three (the gray bat, Mexican free-tailed bat and ...
Here are the hunting seasons for Ohio's birds. Early waterfowl hunting. Canada Geese: Sept. 7 through Sept. 15 Teal (blue-winged, green-winged, cinnamon): Sept. 7 through Sept. 22 Youth waterfowl ...
In a Facebook post this week, the Ohio Division of Wildlife reports that black-bellied whistling-ducks have been spotted with ducklings at a wildlife area in Wayne County, northwest of Tuscarawas ...
The state of Ohio bought the marshland in 1951 to create the Magee Marsh Wildlife Area. [2] [3] Magee Marsh was one of the sites chosen to reintroduce the Canada goose to Ohio in the 1960s. The program hatches 9,000 to 11,000 goslings each year, making it one of the nation's most successful wildlife reintroduction programs. [3]
The ring-necked duck (Aythya collaris) is a diving duck from North America commonly found in freshwater ponds and lakes. [3] The scientific name is derived from Greek aithuia, an unidentified seabird mentioned by authors including Hesychius and Aristotle, and Latin collaris, "of the neck" from collum, "neck".