Duck (Wood)

Considered by many to be the most beautiful of North American waterfowl, the wood duck is a perching duck that normally nests in cavities in trees.

Wood ducks are medium-sized perching ducks. Breeding males have an iridescent green and white crested head with red eyes, red and white bill, chestnut breast, golden flanks and iridescent back.
Female is a drab version of the male, but is considered striking compared to other duck hens.

 

Wood ducks breed in much of southern Canada and the eastern U.S., but is largely absent from U.S. Prairies, Great Plains and southwest. Winter range includes extreme southern Ontario.

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