Featured Creature

COMMON NAME: Wood Duck
SCIENTIFIC NAME: Aix sponsa
DESCRIPTION:
Brightly colored, male’s head is iridescent with a long "slick-backed" crest, red-orange eyes and bright bill with red, yellow, white and black. His throat is white, neck and breast are chestnut. By contrast, female is grayish and brown with a short crest, but can be identified by a prominent teardrop-shaped eye patch around her dark eye. Her bill is black. Male and female have matching blue speculums, white bellies and brownish underwings.
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