Duck Species

Duck Species

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American Black Duck
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Ducks don’t have much sense of smell, but a black duck’s hearing is very acute, and it only takes a faint unfamiliar noise to spook them.
American Wigeon
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Unlike many other ducks, wigeon do not pair off until they’ve reached their breeding grounds, and the drakes are particularly belligerent about defending their territories...
Blue-Winged Teal
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About ninety-five percent of North American blue-wings winter south of the United States, and some travel remarkable distances.
Canvasback
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The oldest known American duck decoy was fashioned from reeds by and Indian hunter centuries ago, and mimics the distinctive profile of a canvasback.
Cinnamon Teal
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The blue-winged teal is known to science as Anas discors. This translates as “discordant duck.”
Gadwall
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Gadwalls are dabbling ducks, which means their legs are located roughly in the center of their bodies and they feed mostly on the surface of shallow water.
Green-Winged Teal
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Green-wings are the smallest of North American teal. Drakes average only eleven ounces and hens just over ten. This proves again that beauty often comes in small packages.
Lesser Scaup
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With an incubation time of about twenty-five days, a fifty-day fledging period for the young ones, and an annual molt for the adults, lesser scaup are still...
Mallard
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In our hemisphere, mallards live from Alaska to the northern coast of South America, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and are common in all four flyways.
Northern Pintail
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The pintail is probably the most graceful and elegant of them all. A lot of old duck hunters call him “bull sprigs, spike-tails, or even pheasant-ducks,” all derived from his long spiky tail feathers.