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antiqueanimals · 21 days
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Virginia Wildlife; vol. 31, no. 11. November, 1970. Illustration by John W. Taylor.
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brooklynbridgebirds · 24 days
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American Black Duck Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 1
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birbmania · 2 months
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American black duck, male . . . Bombay Hook National Wildlife Refuge, Smyrna, Delaware . . . 12/15/23
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bird-enthusiast-hq · 4 months
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Female Dabbling Ducks: The Mallard
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The most common duck, seen in just about any habitat with water, the mallard is great to compare other ducks to. It has a mottled darkish brown body with a detailed face and bill. Getting used to this duck will allow you to easily tell when a duck is not a mallard.
Size: Large
Shape: Well-proportioned; somewhat bulky
Beak: Bi-colored, orange with a dark "saddle"
Legs: Orange
Colors: Evenly mottled; a nice medium brown
Speculum: blue with white borders
Other features: white outer tail-feathers unlike most other ducks. This duck is actually massive compared to most other ducks in North America, making identification fairly easy side-by-side with other species.
In flight, they appear large and bulky, with a speculum that appears overall dark but whose white stripes are prominent. Mallards, still flying quickly like all ducks, have wingbeats that you can count, unlike some other ducks.
POSSIBLE CONFUSION SPECIES and WHAT TO LOOK FOR...
American Black Duck:
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American Black Ducks are a common concern in Identification. First off, their range is in Eastern North America, but do be cautious for vagrants.
ABDs are dark, much darker in comparison to a female mallard. Side-by-side, it's very obvious. Their speculum is purple and never has white stripes. ⚠️Mallards and ABDs can hybridize and that leads to varied speculums and colors. I recommend checking out guides to help pick out hybrids.
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Other female dabblers are either much smaller than mallards, or don't have the same patterning on the face and body. To get some experience with these birds, visit your local park, marsh, pond, etc. These birds are just about everywhere! Good luck!
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skeleton-deer · 23 days
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Some recent birds
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emaadsidiki · 20 days
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Waterfowl Marsh - Queens Zoo
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julianbashir · 7 months
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american black ducks at prospect park, new york
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Round 2 match 1A
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The American Black Duck, compared with many closely related species such as the Mallard, has relatively little sexual dimorphism, which means that males and females of the species look very similar. They can be distinguished by bill colour, however, as males have a yellow bill while female's bills are more of an olive green.
The Black Scoter is a sea duck, which means it spends much of its time in ocean waters, and can be found in the winter along both the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. This does not, however, mean that they avoid freshwater entirely. They often make their nests near freshwater, and some birds even winter on the Great Lakes.
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alonglistofbirds · 1 year
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[171/10,977] American Black Duck - Anas rubripes
Order: Anseriformes Family: Anatidae (ducks, geese and swans) Subfamily: Anatinae (dabbling ducks)
Photo credit: August Davidson-Onsgard via Macaulay Library
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peterborough-scapes · 2 years
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Close Pair
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American Black Duck
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insomniac-pbparker · 2 months
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sebring5 · 2 months
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5.2-1 by Henry Via Flickr: Black crown night heron
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brooklynbridgebirds · 3 months
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American Black Duck Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 4 Bird Island
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na-bird-of-the-day · 7 months
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BOTD: Black-bellied Whistling Duck
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Photo: Mick Thompson
"A spectacularly marked, sociable, noisy waterfowl. Often rests on low snags above water, and may perch high in dead trees. In North America found mostly near Mexican border, but has increased in numbers recently, partly because it will use nest boxes put out for it. In some areas (such as coastal Texas), feeding of this species has become popular, with landowners tossing out corn near ponds to attract hundreds of whistling-ducks."
- Audubon Field Guide
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bird-enthusiast-hq · 4 months
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Female Dabbling Ducks: The American Black Duck
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The American Black Duck is a large and bulky duck that lives in Eastern North America but can show up rarely in the Central states as well. Though not nearly as common as its close relative, the Mallard, understanding how to tell between these species is a crucial part of North American birding. Once you learn these tips, it makes scanning flocks of mallards into a fun challenge!
Size: Large
Shape: Boxy
Beak: Variable, from a dull olive to a bright yellow
Legs: Bright orange
Colors: Darkest dabbler; even chocolate brown with fine mottling on the chest and a noticeable eye-stripe.
Speculum: Deep blue to purple with black bars, not white (DISTINCTIVE)
Other features: it's unlikely you'll mistake the ABD for anything besides a mallard, a bird I covered in a previous post. Just remember, they're darker than every other dabbler and have a unique speculum. However, depending on where you live, take great care to separate this species from the Mottled Duck, a southern species. They have a white face that a body that isn't as dark.
In flight, they're similar to mallards with white underwings and wingbeats you can count. They're quick, but not as blazing fast as teals or as slim as some other larger species.
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To get some experience with these birds, go out and look for flocks of mallards in freshwater ponds or marshes (they may be in saltwater, too). Find a duck that's uniquely dark--they won't outnumber the mallards. Be wary of hybrids between the two.
More female dabbler identification coming soon.
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seathernycolors · 8 months
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Last week I took a trip to the Smithsonian Bird House! Here's a small selection of the birds I saw drawn in a little sketch spread.
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