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male
Anas platyrhynchos
Description: 18-27" Male has conspicuous green head, white neck ring, chestnut breast, grayish body, speculum metallic purplish-blue, female mottled brown with white tail, bill mottled orange and black Habitat: Abundant throughout the Northern Hemisphere. Found near shallow fresh or brackish water in a variety of habitats including marshes, swamps, wetlands, ponds, lakes. After breeding season, also found near coast on estuaries, bays and other sheltered sites. Avoids fast-moving water.
Nesting: 8 to 10 pale greenish buff eggs in a shallow bowl of grass lined with down, hidden in marsh or on brush pile Range: breeds from Alaska, Canada southward to Texas, winters throughout US and in Central America, tropics
Voice: males utter soft reedy notes, females a loud "calling" quack Diet: Seeds and shoots of sedge, grass, and aquatic vegetation, grain, acorns; insects, aquatic invertebrates. Laying females may eat 2 times more animal food than males or non-laying females.
Notes: Very tolerant of humans. Hardy, often wintering far north as long as it can find food and open water, popular North American species, during molt female flightless for 32 days.
When present in Oklahoma: more abundant in winter, but seen statewide year-round |
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