Ring-Necked Duck #9 - 2022-04-10
Ring-Necked Ducks (male and female).
Beween 14 to 18 inches long. The male has a black back and breast, an angular purple-glossed black appearing head with pale gray flanks and a vertical white mark on the side of the breast. The Female is brownish, paler around the base of the bill and with a narrow white eye ring. The bill is pale gray whith a white ring. The high angular shape of the head distinguishes this bird from the scaup.
They inhabit wooded lakes, ponds and rivers and are seldom seen on salt water except in southern states.
They range from Alaska east through Manitoba to Newfoundland and south to California, Arizona, the Great Lakes and Maine. They winter from Washington south along the Pacific Coast, east thgouth the SOuthwestern and GUl Coast states and north to New England.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.
Ring-Necked Duck #9 - 2022-04-10
Ring-Necked Ducks (male and female).
Beween 14 to 18 inches long. The male has a black back and breast, an angular purple-glossed black appearing head with pale gray flanks and a vertical white mark on the side of the breast. The Female is brownish, paler around the base of the bill and with a narrow white eye ring. The bill is pale gray whith a white ring. The high angular shape of the head distinguishes this bird from the scaup.
They inhabit wooded lakes, ponds and rivers and are seldom seen on salt water except in southern states.
They range from Alaska east through Manitoba to Newfoundland and south to California, Arizona, the Great Lakes and Maine. They winter from Washington south along the Pacific Coast, east thgouth the SOuthwestern and GUl Coast states and north to New England.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.