Wood Duck Identification - 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. In flight, they hold their head up high, sometimes bobbing it.
Wood duck - Wikipedia
WEBThe wood duck or Carolina duck (Aix sponsa) is a partially migratory species of perching duck found in North America. The male is one of the most colorful North American waterfowls. [ 2 ][ 3 ] A male wood duck taking flight. A male wood duck stretching.
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.
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.
Wood Duck | Audubon Field Guide
WEBColorful adult male unmistakable for most of year. Female has hint of crest, dark back, white eye-patch on gray head. Male in eclipse plumage resembles female, with more distinct white throat. In flight, Wood Ducks look long-tailed and dark, with a white trailing edge on inner part of wing.
Wood Duck - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
WEBOften considered one of the most beautiful duck species in North America, the male is multicolored with iridescent greens, blues and purples with a bold red bill. The female is more understated than the male being smoky gray in color.
Wood Duck - American Bird Conservancy
WEBThe colorful drake Wood Duck is one of North America's most beautiful waterfowl – an aquatic counterpart of the male Painted Bunting. This widespread, fast-flying denizen of swampy woods is also called the Carolina Duck, Swamp Duck, or Squealer Duck.
Wood Duck - eBird
WEBBreeding males are stunning with ornate, colorful patterns visible up close; appears dark overall at a distance. Females gray-brown with thin white eyering. Crest on head. Found in wetlands and flooded woods. Flies through trees with …
Wood Duck - BirdWeb
WEBMale Wood Ducks are flamboyant in breeding plumage, practically unmistakable with their brightly colored chestnut and yellow bodies, green droop-crested heads, bright red bills, and bold white barring on their faces and bodies.
Wood Duck | NC Wildlife
WEBThe drake, or male wood duck, is one of the most strikingly beautiful ducks of any species. Its head has a large crown, or crest, and is colored with iridescent greens, blues, and purples. The drake’s distinctive facial pattern includes a white throat with fingerlike extensions onto the cheek and neck.
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