Ducks
Order: Anseriformes. Family: Anatidae
The family Anatidae includes the ducks and most duck-like waterfowl, such as geese and swans. These are birds that are modified for an aquatic existence with webbed feet, flattened bills and feathers that are excellent at shedding water due to an oily coating.
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna bicolor
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Trumpeter Swan Cygnus buccinator (A)
- Tundra Swan Cygnus columbianus (A)
- Bean Goose Anser fabalis
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons
- Snow Goose Chen caerulescens
- Ross's Goose Chen rossii
- Brant Branta bernicla
- Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii
- Canada Goose Branta canadensis
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- Wood Duck Aix sponsa
- Eurasian Wigeon Anas penelope (A)
- American Wigeon Anas americana
- Gadwall Anas strepera
- Green-winged Teal Anas carolinensis
- Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos
- Mottled Duck Anas fulvigula
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Garganey Anas querquedula (A)
- Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
- Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera
- Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
- Canvasback Aythya valisineria
- Redhead Aythya americana
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris
- Greater Scaup Aythya marila
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus (A)
- Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis (A)
- Black Scoter Melanitta americana
- Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata
- White-winged Scoter Melanitta fusca
- Common Goldeneye Bucephala clangula
- Bufflehead Bucephala albeola
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
- Common Merganser Mergus merganser
- Masked Duck Nomonyx dominica
- Ruddy Duck Oxyura jamaicensis
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“The only ones who are really grateful for the war are the wild ducks, such a lot of them in the marshes of the Rhone and so peaceful ... because all the shot-guns have been taken away completely taken away and nobody can shoot with them nobody at all and the wild ducks are very content. They act as of they had never been shot at, never, it is so easy to form old habits again, so very easy.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)
“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)