Ducks and Geese
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 (A)
- Black-bellied Whistling-Duck Dendrocygna autumnalis
- Greater White-fronted Goose Anser albifrons (A)
- Snow Goose Chen caerulescens (A)
- Muscovy Duck Cairina moschata
- American Wigeon Anas americana
- Green-winged Teal Anas crecca
- Mallard Anas platyrhynchos (A)
- Northern Pintail Anas acuta
- Blue-winged Teal Anas discors
- Cinnamon Teal Anas cyanoptera
- Northern Shoveler Anas clypeata
- Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris (A)
- Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis
- Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus (A)
- Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator (A)
- Masked Duck Nomonyx dominica
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“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)
“Not a flock of wild geese cackles over our town, but it to some extent unsettles the value of real estate here, and, if I were a broker, I should probably take that disturbance into account.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)