Bird name:

Wood Duck

Aix sponsaOrder: ANSERIFORMES Family: Geese and Ducks (Anatidae)

Codes: Common Name: WODU Scientific Name: AIXSPO ITIS Taxonomic No.: 175122

Wood Duck - The male Wood Duck has a brown back, buff-yellow sides, and purple-brown breast with white flecks grading to white belly. Crested head is green and purple with white stripes. Throat is white with two bars, one extends as a partial collar, the other extends behind and below the red eyes.

Wood Duck Female - The female Wood Duck is duller and has a gray-brown head, neck, and breast, weak crest, and white-spotted flanks. Belly is white. Dark eyes are surrounded by a large, white teardrop-shaped patch, bill is blue-gray.

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Wood Duck

Wood Duck: Small tree duck with brown back, white throat, purple-brown breast with white flecks grading to white belly; buff-yellow flanks. Crested head is green and purple with white stripes; white throat has two bars, one extends as a partial collar, the other extends behind and below eyes.

● Song: "jeeeeee"

● Foraging & Feeding: Wood Duck: Feeds on vegetation, insects, snails, tadpoles, and salamanders; forages while swimming.

● Breeding & nesting: Wood Duck: Nine to fifteen creamy white or pale buff eggs are laid in a tree cavity lined with down. Incubation ranges from 25 to 37 days and is carried out by the female. Young can fly at 56 to 70 days. Occasionally produces two broods per year.

● Similar species: Wood Duck: None in range.

Flight Pattern

Swift direct flight with rapid wing beats.

● Range & Habitat: Wood Duck: Breeds across most of central and eastern U.S. and southeastern Canada and along the Pacific coast from California to British Columbia. Preferred habitats include wooded swamps and freshwater marshes.

^BreedingMonogamous, Solitary nester

^PopulationIncreasing

^MigrationMigratory

^Weight24 Ounces

4 and 6 letter alpha codes

The four letter common name alpha code is is derived from the first two letters of the common first name and the first two letters of common last name. The six letter species name alpha code is derived from the first three letters of the scientific name (genus) and the first three letters of the scientific name (species). See (1) below for the rules used to create the codes..

Four-letter (for English common names) and six-letter (for scientific names) species alpha codes were developed by Pyle and DeSante (2003, North American Bird-Bander 28:64-79) to reflect A.O.U. taxonomy and nomenclature (A.O.U. 1998) as modified by Supplements 42 (Auk 117:847-858, 2000) and 43 (Auk 119:897-906, 2002). The list has been updated by Pyle and DeSante to reflect changes reported by the A.O.U from 2003 through 2006.

Field Guide to Birds of North America

Wood Duck

Wood Duck

Flight Pattern