Canvasback Images

Canvasback Images, Facts and Information:

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  • Canvasbacks are large diving ducks. Males have pale gray bodies, breasts and tails with reddish heads and necks, red eyes, black bills and a long sloping profile. Females have brown heads and necks, pale brown gray flanks, dark eyes, and dark bills.
  • Canvasbacks are migratory. They breed from Alaska south and east to Minnesota. They spend winters in coastal regions, the interior west, south to the Gulf Coast and throughout the southern states. They nest on marshes.
  • Canvasbacks eat seeds, tubers, leaves, roots, buds, snails and insect larvae. They dive and dabble to find food.
  • Canvasbacks lay 7 to 12 eggs which hatch in 23 to 29 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of ducks can be called a “raft”, “paddling”, “flush” or “brace” of ducks.
  • Canvasbacks can live to be more than 22 years of age.

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