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woodpeckers

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact Order Piciformes (Woodpeckers, Toucans, Barbets, Honeyguides) Family Picidae (Woodpeckers) Click on the thumbnail to see more of each species. Campephilis guatamalensis PALE-BILLED WOODPECKER Campephilus principalis IVORY-BILLED WOODPECKER Colaptes chrysoides GILDED FLICKER Colaptes auratus YELLOW-SHAFTED FLICKER Colaptes auratus cafer RED-SHAFTED FLICKER Dinopium shorii HIMALAYAN FLAMEBACK Dryobates nuttallii NUTTALL’S WOODPECKER Dryobates pubescens […]

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galliformes

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact Order Galliformes (QUAIL, GROUSE, PHEASANTS, PARTRIDGES) Click on the thumbnail to see gallery of each species. Family Cracidae (CHACHALACAS, GUANS) Family Numididae (GUINEAFOWL) Ortalis vetula PLAIN CHACHALACA Numida meleagris HELMETED GUINEA FOWL Family Odontophoridae (NEW WORLD QUAIL) Callipepla californica CALIFORNIA QUAIL Callipepla gambelii GAMBEL’S QUAIL Callipepla squamata SCALED QUAIL Colinus

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misc-waterfowl

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact MISCELLANEOUS WATERFOWL (Anseriformes) Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Amazonetta brasiliensis BRAZILIAN TEAL Anas bahamensis WHITE-CHEEKED PINTAIL Anas capensis CAPE TEAL Anas capensis CAPE TEAL Anas capensis CAPE TEAL Anas diazi MEXICAN DUCK Anas layanensis LAYSAN DUCK Anseranus semipalmatus MAGPIE

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surf scoter

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Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) is a North American sea duck that dives for its food, mainly mussels and other benthic invertebrates.  They breed in boreal forests near freshwater lakes in northern Canada and Alaska and winter along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts as far south as Texas and Baja

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ruddy duck

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Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) is North American and has a wide range over most of the US, Mexico and parts of Canada.  They breed in marshy lakes or posts, with nests of grass hidden in tall vegetation and dive and swim underwater to feed on Arthropods and aquatic plants.

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ring-necked duck

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Ring-necked duck (Aythya collaris) is a North American diving duck of boreal, wooded freshwater ponds and lakes that migrates to southern North America in winter. They are omnivorous, feeding on snails, worms, insects and submerged plants.  It seems that Ring-billed Duck would have been a more apt name. Aythya collaris

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redhead

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Redhead (Aythya americana) is a North American diving duck with an intermittent range from Canada to the Caribbean, favoring semi-permanent non-forested wetlands to breed and migrating south in winter.  They eat mostly mollusks and insect larvae while breeding and more vegetation when migrating and wintering. Aythya americana REDHEAD *Revised gallery

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harlequin duck

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is a diving sea duck nesting and living near cold, fast moving streams along the northern Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America, and eastern Russia.  In eastern North America the they are declining and considered threatened by oil spills and hydroelectric projects.  Today it is

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common-merganser

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Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Common Merganser, Mergus merganser is a diving sea duck whose habitat is forested rivers and lakes North America and Eurasia.  They have serrated jaws that help grip their prey which consists mainly of fish, and crustaceans.  They nest in tree cavities and for many, their range moves south in

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common eider

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Menu Home Subjects Covers About Contact The Common Eider, (Somateria mollissima) is a diving sea duck breeding in the Arctic and some temperate area of North America and Eurasia.  It winters south in large flocks. With the exception of the Muscovy Duck, it is the largest duck in North America.  They have evolved cooperative breeding,

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