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Discover the World of Ducks and Other Waterfowl: Unveiling over 30 different types of ducks, their behaviors, and preferred habitats. Your comprehensive guide to waterfowl identification and insights.
Learn how to identify diving ducks, also called sea ducks, by their distinctive features, such as head shape, bill color and pattern, and wing markings. See photos and descriptions of six species of diving ducks, including canvasback, redhead, ring-necked duck, scaup, Steller's eider and spectacled eider.
Learn how to identify ducks by shape, color, sound, behavior, habitat, and range. Improve your skills with guides, websites, videos, and recordings from DU and other sources.
Learn how to identify the different types of geese, their migration patterns, habits, and more from Ducks Unlimited, a conservation organization for waterfowl. See photos and descriptions of nine species of geese that occur in North America, including Canada, snow, and emperor geese.
Green-winged teal are the smallest of our North American dabbling ducks with a short neck and small bill. Male green-winged teal have a chestnut head with an iridescent green to purple patch extending from the eyes to the nape of the neck.
American black ducks are similar to mallards in size, and resemble the female mallard in coloration, though the black duck's plumage is darker. The male and female black duck are similar in appearance, but the male's bill is yellow while the female's is a dull green.
Learn about the bufflehead, a small diving duck with a white patch on its head and a blue-gray bill. Find out its breeding, feeding, migration and wintering habits, and listen to its call.
You might find yourself crouching in a sink box in Quebecs Saint Lawrence River, bodybooting over hand-carved decoys on Chesapeake Bay, or gunning for mottled ducks and black-bellied whistling ducks on Lake Okeechobee.
The mallard is one of the most recognized of all ducks and is the ancestor of several domestic breeds. Its wide range has given rise to several distinct populations. The male mallard's white neck-ring separates the green head from the chestnut-brown chest, contrasts with the gray sides, brownish back, black rump and black upper- and under-tail ...
Learn about the greater scaup, a large diving duck that breeds in the Arctic and winters along the coasts of North America. Find out its description, food habits, population status, migration routes and call.