American Wigeon

Anas americana

Order

ANSERIFORMES

Family

Geese and Ducks (Anatidae)

Code 4

AMWI

Code 6

ANAAME

ITIS

American Wigeon Female - The female American Wigeon is mottled brown with a gray head that has heavy fine black streaking and a brown breast.

American Wigeon Eclipse - The male eclipse American Wigeon has more black streaking on the head and neck and lacks the green ear patch and white on the head, the upperparts are brown and the breast and flanks are chestnut.

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Bird Call Credits: The Macaulay Library of Natural Sounds at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Martyn Stewart, http://www.naturesound.org, Redmond, Washington USA. The reuse or copying of bird calls in this database is strictly forbidden2.