Habitat

• Found in most types of aquatic habitat.Breeding• Lay 10-12 eggs.• Incubation is 28-29 days.• Ducklings can fly in 7-8 weeks.Appearance• The bright green head, white neck ring, and yellow 

bill are the tell-tale markings of a male mallard.

• The female is a more drab mottled brown with an 

orange bill.

• Both sexes have blue and white feathers on the 

outer edges of their wings that can be seen in flight.

Mallard Anas platyrhynchos

Gadwall Anas strep

Habitat• Found in marshesBreeding• Lays 8-12 eggs.• Incubation is 25-2• Ducklings can fly 

Appearance

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Habitat

• Found in streams, ponds, and marshes that are 

bordered by reeds. 

Breeding• Lays 8-12 eggs.• Incubation is 24-25 days. • Ducklings can fly in around 7 weeks.

Appearance

• The male is bright red with black bills and blue, 

green, white patches on the wings. 

• Female cinnamon teal are nearly identical to female 

blue-winged teal; the best way to distinguish is to look for the male nearby.

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Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera

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Habitat

• Found in marshesBreeding• Lays 9-11 eggs.• Incubation is 24-2• Ducklings can fly 

Appearance

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Northern Pintail Anas acuta American Wigeon An

Habitat• Found in marshes, ponds, and lakes• Winters occasionally on salt bays.Breeding• Lays 7-9 eggs.• Incubation is 25-26 days. • Ducklings can fly in around 7 weeks.

Appearance

• The pintail has long needle-point tail feathers, which 

is where it got its name. 

• The male has a chocolate brown head with a white 

stripe that extends up the neck to the side of the head as well as gray back and sides. 

• The female is mottled brown in color.• Both sexes have long slender necks and gray bills 

and legs.

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Wood Duck Aix sponsa Northern Shovele

Habitat• Found in ponds or • Swims in a circular 

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Appearance

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• Habitat

• Found on rivers, ponds, swamps, and creeks that are 

wooded.

• Occasionally found in open marshes. • Breeding• Cavity nesters that use natural cavities or manmade 

boxes.

• Lay 9-13 eggs, but “egg dumping” is quite common 

and one female may end up incubating eggs from several others.

• Incubation is around 28 days. • Ducklings can fly in 56-70 days.• Appearance• Wood ducks are fairly small with tufted heads. • Males have an iridescent green head with a white 

“bridle”, red eyes, red and white bills with black tips, and sides that are tan.

• The females have gray heads, but the tufts are 

iridescent blue-green and have patches of white around their eyes. 

• Both sexes’ wings are iridescent blue and green, 

have brown chests that are speckled, white undersides.

Steve Emmons