Wood Duck Ducklings

The Wood Duck is one of the most stunningly pretty of all waterfowl.

Wood duck ducklings. The ringed teal may be its closest living relative. They occasionally winter in the Cayman Islands Scott and Carbonell 1986. As juveniles they eat a lot of invertebrates and occasionally a small fish.

Such battles are often short. The elegant females have a distinctive profile and delicate white pattern around the eye. Wood Duck populations increased between 1966 and 2015 according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey.

Wood ducks mainly dabble and tip for food in a shallow pond or slough yet they may dive for acorns that have fallen in shallow water from a nearby oak treeThe distribution of the wood duck occurs naturally only in North AmericaThere are two separate breeding populations one in the west extending from British Columbia south to California and including the high plains of Montana. Wood ducks walk fly and swim. Wood ducks are productive egg layers compared with other duck species.

Wood ducks will also eat aquatic and land invertebrates. Wood Ducks can be found throughout the year in the US with some individuals breeding in Canada and some wintering in Mexico. The original silver male that produced the platinum females unfortunately died early that.

Each and every one will have to leap 30 feet into the Mississippi R. Photographer Harlan Albers found 23 ducklings in his backyard nest box see below a result of dump nesting. They will also use a constructed nesting box.

Although not territorial they will protect their mates by chasing pecking and hitting. More Wood Duck Resources. These ducks build nests in abandoned woodpecker holes or natural tree cavities caused by disease fire or lightning.