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Gadwall

Anas strepera

Description:

Breeding males have a patterned grey body, with a black rear end, light chestnut colored wings. Non-breeding males may look more like the female, but still has the wing pattern, and is usually greyer above and has less orange on the bill.[3] The female is light brown, with plumage much like a female Mallard. It can be distinguished from that species by the dark orange-edged bill, smaller size, the white speculum, and white belly.[4] Both sexes go through two moults annually, following a juvenile moult

Habitat:

Winters in migration reservoirs, ponds, fresh and salt water marshes, city parks, sewage ponds, or muddy edges of estuaries.

Notes:

Spotted these in different locations. These I spotted at small marsh pond. They were the only ducks in the pond.

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2 Comments

Jellis
Jellis 11 years ago

Thanks My favorite is the Pintail. Did you view that one on my spottings?

MrsPbio
MrsPbio 11 years ago

Ooooh my favorite ducks! So elegant!

Jellis
Spotted by
Jellis

Hercules, California, USA

Spotted on Dec 30, 2012
Submitted on Dec 30, 2012

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