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Other Ducks

To make it easier to picture the various types of ducks in the wild, browse the images below.

 

The fulvous whistling-duck (dendrocigna bicolor) is one of the most wide spread waterfowl species and can be found in tropical regions around the world.from the southern United States, the West Indies, and Mexico down to South America, sub Saharan Africa, and on the Indian subcontinent.

The blue winged teals (anas discors) encompass all of North America except for western and northern Alaska, the northern Yukon Territory, the Northwest Territories, and the northeastern part of Canada. They are rare in the desert southwest and the west coast of the United States. They winter throughout the southern United States down through Central America and into South America as far as Central Chile and Brazil. They fly in flocks from north to south during the winter migration.

Wild muscovy ducks (cairina moschata) are non-migratory birds that are found in coastal and lowland forested wetlands from Texas and Mexico south through Central America and down into South America to upper Argentina. A feral populations exists in Florida. They prefer fresh water but also live in brackish.

Follow The Lead BW

A group of mottled ducks play follow the leader on a hot summers day in a Riverview, Florida marsh. Located in southern Hillsborough County, the marsh is a great place to observe water fowl.

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Protective Mother

A black bellied whistling duck protects her ducklings from the sun and strangers in Hillsborough County's Ruskin, Florida on a hot August 2016 day.

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Family picnic

family of black-bellied whistling lducks feed on the vegetation in a marshy area of Manatee County off Bishops Harbor Road in Rubonia, Florida on a warm July summers day in 2016.

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Watchful Eyes

On a warm July summers day in rural Manatee County, Florida, a black-bellied whistling duck and three of its nine ducklings feed in a marshy area nest to Bishops Harbor Road in Rubonia.

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Mottled Trio

This trio of mottled ducks, two adults and a juvenile, were swimming in a marshy area of Hillsborough County in Riverview, Florida an a warm summer July day.

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Mottled Trio BW

This trio of mottled ducks, two adults and a juvenile, were swimming in a marshy area of Hillsborough County in Riverview, Florida an a warm summer July day.

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Whistling Ducklings

These black-bellied whistling duck ducklings were part of a group of nine plus their parents in a marsh in Manatee County, Florida off Bishop Harbor Road in Rubonia on a mid July summers day.

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Mottled Duck

This mottled duck had been feeding in a ditch alongside a rural highway in western Polk County, Florida on the morning of June 5, 2016.

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Gray Headed Duck

This duck was hanging out with the American Pekin Ducks at Lakieland, Florida's Lake Morton on a late March morning.I've been unable to identify it, but it could be a reversion to some of the original coloring of the Chinese Mallard from which the American Pekin Duck was bred.

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Lesser Scaup

A lesser scaup swims in Lakeland, Florida's Lake Morton in late March before heading back north for the summer. One of the most abundant North American waterfowl,

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Pekin Ducks

A pair of pekin ducks swimming in Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida.

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Woodland Beauty

A wood duck searching for food in a cove off the oxbow at Lettuce Lake Park in Tampa, Florida.

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