Birds of North America
Ducks
Anatidae
Lives, Habitats & Pictures of Ducks
There are a least twenty eight types of ducks living in North America, not included in these water birds are the eiders, loons, merganser, scoters, and teals.
Among the different types, these birds can be grouped again, into puddle, aka "dabbling" and diving ducks. The dabblers, mostly feed in smaller bodies of shallow water or along shorelines, where they are able to tip their bodies forward to reach their food on the bottom.
Then, there are divers, who feed in deeper water, where they dive and pursue their quarry. Some of these birds, the Harlequin Duck for example, actually dives to the bottom of fast flowing waters and feeds on life forms attached to rocks.
Here is a list different types of Ducks seen in North America, native and vagrant birds included;
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Bird Name |
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Bird Name
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| 1 | American Black Duck | 2 | Black-bellied Whistling Duck |
| 3 | Canvasback | 4 | Fulvous Whistling Duck |
| 5 | Gadwall | 6 | Harlequin Duck |
| 7 | Long-tailed Duck | 8 | Mallard |
| 9 | Mandarin Duck | 10 | Masked Duck |
| 11 | Mottled Duck | 12 | Muscovy Duck |
| 13 | Pekin Duck | 14 | Redhead |
| 15 | Ring-necked Duck | 16 | Ruddy Duck |
| 17 | Tuffed Duck | 18 | Wood Duck |
| 19 | Bufflehead | 20 | Common Goldeneye |
| 21 | Barrow's Goldeneye | 22 | Northern Pintail |
| 23 | White-cheeked Pintail | 24 | Lesser Scaup |
| 25 | Greater Scaup | 26 | Northern Showeler |
| 27 | American Wigeon | 28 | Eurasian Wigeon |
Not included in the above mentioned waterfowl are the hybrids formed from the different types of water birds.
Click on the bird names listed below to see pictures of the different types of water birds
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