Hey Sweetie Ready for a Swim

by Linda Brody

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Hey Sweetie Ready for a Swim

Artist

Linda Brody

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Photograph - Photography

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Hey Sweetie Ready for a Swim.

The Wood Duck is one of the most stunningly beautiful of all waterfowl. Males are iridescent chestnut and green, with ornate patterns on nearly every feather; the elegant females have a distinctive profile and delicate white pattern around the eye. Wood Ducks have a unique shape among ducks—a boxy, crested head, a thin neck, and a long, broad tail. In flight, they hold their head up high, sometimes bobbing it. Overall, their silhouette shows a skinny neck, long body, thick tail, and short wings.

In good light, males have a glossy green head cut with white stripes, a chestnut breast and buffy sides. In low or harsh light, they'll look dark overall with paler sides. Females are gray-brown with white-speckled breast. In eclipse plumage (late summer), males lose their pale sides and bold stripes, but retain their bright eye and bill. Juveniles are very similar to females.

These birds live in wooded swamps, where they nest in holes in trees or in nest boxes put up around lake margins. They are one of the few duck species equipped with strong claws that can grip bark and perch on branches.

This photograph has been featured in the following Groups:
Ducks Geese and Swans
FAA Bird Portraits
Birds in Focus
Kingdom Anamalia
Coastal Water Birds - Shore birds
A Birding Group - Wings
Wildlife 1 A Day

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December 2nd, 2018

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