Wood Duck Images

Wood Duck Images, Facts and Information:

Aix sponsa

• Wood Ducks are small colorful ducks that have crests and nest in trees or man made wooden nest boxes. Male Wood Ducks have brown backs, white throats, buff-yellow flanks, purple-brown breasts with white flecks, green and purple crested heads that have white stripes and red eyes. Their bills are black, white and red. Female Wood Ducks are duller with gray to brownish heads, necks and breasts, white spotted flanks and dark eyes surrounded by white tear-drop shaped patches.
• Wood Ducks are migratory.
• They breed across most of the eastern and central U.S., southeastern Canada, and along the Pacific coast from British Columbia to California and scattered areas of the West.
• Wood Ducks eat insects, snails, salamanders, and tadpoles.
• Wood Ducks lay 9 to 15 eggs which hatch in 25 to 37 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
• A group of ducks can be called a “raft”, “paddling”, “flush” or “brace” of ducks.
• Wood Ducks can live to be more than 22 years of age.

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