Waterfowl Identification

Front 1

Has a black head and neck, white patches on the face, and a brownish-gray body. Diver, males and females look the same.

Back 1

Canada Goose

Front 2

has a black bill, a chestnut red head and neck, a black breast, a grayish back, black rump, and a blackish brown tail. Diver

Back 2

Canvasback Male

Front 3

birds have a bright green head, puddle duck

Back 3

Mallard Male

Front 4

is light brown. Puddle duck

Back 4

Mallard female

Front 5

has a light brown head and neck, grading into a darker brown chest and foreback. Diver

Back 5

Canvasback female

Front 6

is mainly scalloped and mottled in light brown with a more uniformly grey-brown head, and has a pointed tail

Back 6

Pintail female

Front 7

in breeding plumage has a chocolate-brown head and white breast with a white stripe extending up the side of the neck. Its upperparts and sides are grey, but elongated grey feathers with black central stripes are draped across the back from the shoulder area

Back 7

Pintail Male

Front 8

has a blue bill, a red head and neck, a black breast, yellow eyes and a grey back.

Back 8

Redhead Male

Front 9

has a brown head and body and a darker bluish bill with a black tip diver

Back 9

Redhead Female

Front 10

is similar in color pattern to the Eurasian Tufted Duck, It has a grey bill with a white band, a shiny purple head, a white breast, yellow eyes and a dark grey back.

Back 10

Ringneck Male

Front 11

has a pale brown head and body with a dark brown back, a dark bill with a more subtle light band than the male and brown eyes.

Back 11

Ringneck Female

Front 12

have a rust-red body, a blue bill, and a white face with a black cap Diver

Back 12

Ruddy duck Male

Front 13

have a grey-brown body with a greyish face with a darker bill, cap and a cheek stripe. Diver

Back 13

Ruddy Duck Female

Front 14

in alternate plumage have a black, effervescent head and a small tuft at the hindcrown, a black breast, a whitish-grey back and wings with darker vermiculations and black outer and geyish-brown inner primary remiges. The underparts are white with some olive vermiculations on the flanks, and the rectrices and tail coverts are black.

Back 14

Scaup (bluebill) Male

Front 15

have a white band at the base of the bill, often a lighter ear region, and are otherwise dark brown all over, shading to white on the mid-belly.

Back 15

Scaup (bluebill) Female

Front 16

is light brown, with plumage much like a female Mallard, but easily distinguished by the long broad bill, which is gray tinged with orange on cutting edge and lower mandible. Puddle duck

Back 16

Shoveler Female

Front 17

has a green head, white breast and chestnut belly and flanks. In flight, pale blue forewing feathers are revealed, separated from the green speculum by a white border. Puddle duck

Back 17

Shoveler Male

Front 18

has two color plumage morphs, white (snow) or gray/blue (blue), thus the common description as "snows" and "blues."

Back 18

Snow goose

Front 19

has grey flanks and back, with a yellow rear end and a white-edged green speculum

Back 19

Green wing Teal Male

Front 20

light brown, with plumage much like a female Mallard. They can be distinguished from most ducks on size and shape, and the speculum.

Back 20

Green Wing Teal Female

Front 21

has a greyish blue head with a white facial crescent, a light brown body with a white patch near the rear and a black tail.

Back 21

Blue Wing Teal Male

Front 22

is mottled brown, and has a whitish area at base of bill. Both sexes have sky-blue wing coverts, a green speculum, and yellow legs.

Back 22

Blue Wing teal Female

Front 23

the plumage of both subspecies is entirely white, with black feet, and a bill that is mostly black, with a thin salmon-pink streak running along the mouthline and – depending on the subspecies – more or less yellow in the proximal part. The iris is dark brown. In birds living in waters that contains large amounts of iron ions (e.g. bog lakes), the head and neck plumage acquires a golden or rusty hue.

Back 23

Whistling Swan

Front 24

has a cinnamon-red head and body with a brown back, a red eye and a dark bill

Back 24

Cinnamon Teal Male

Front 25

has a mottled brown body, a pale brown head, brown eyes and a grey bill and is very similar in appearance to a female Blue-winged Teal; however its overall color is richer, the lore spot, eye line

Back 25

Cinnamon Teal Female

Front 26

has distinctive multicolored iridescent plumage and red eyes

Back 26

Wood Duck Male

Front 27

less colorful, has a white eye-ring and a whitish throat.

Back 27

Wood Duck Female