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"Common Merganser On the Move" by Debra Martz
Captured at Oklahoma's Great Salt Plains State Park at the South Spillway middle tier.

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A duck, a Common Merganser, with a striking red beak, glides smoothly across calm water, creating a gentle wake behind it. Ripples and reflections add a soothing pattern to the scene. Photography by Debra Martz

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Bird of the Day — Snow Goose, Kansas 2019

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Many all-white geese and one dark goose with a white head, standing in a stubble field.

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"Northern Pintail Drifting On The Marsh" by Debra Martz
At Intermediate Marsh in Oklahoma's Salt Plains NWR.

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A duck glides through a calm, reflective body of water surrounded by dry reeds and grasses. The scene captures the tranquility of a marshland habitat under soft natural light. Photography by Debra Martz

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Away She Flew In A Splash by Debra Martz
Seen at Intermediate Marsh along the gravel drive through Oklahoma's Salt Plains National Wildlife Refuge.

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Two ducks are captured in a flurry of motion as they take off from a calm, reflective water surface surrounded by tall golden reeds. One duck is airborne, while the other is just beginning its ascent, leaving a trail of ripples behind. Photography by Debra Martz

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Northern Pintail study. Padilla Bay.
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Three Northern Pintail ducks swim by in a row.

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A pair of Northern Pintail ducks, a female and male, swim by.

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Winter waterfowl at Padilla Bay.
1) Green-winged Teal
2) Hooded Merganser
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A pair of Green-winged Teal dabble along the shoreline at Padilla Bay.

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A Hooded Merganser drake swims along a slough at Padilla Bay.

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A cocoi heron perched on a log in a river in the Pantanal of Brazil. Lush greenery in the background.

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A cocoi heron perched on a log in a river in the Pantanal of Brazil. Lush greenery in the background.

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New addition! 🌎 Redhead (Aythya americana) #NorthAmericanBirds #CentralAmericanBirds #CaribbeanBirds | #Redhead | #DivingDucks #Ducks #Waterbirds #Waterfowl 📷: Photo by MountainDweller🦜 #birdsoftheworld #birds

🌎 Redhead (Aythya americana) ♂

The Redhead is a diving duck found in North and Central America. Males have a distinctive reddish-brown head, while females are a duller brown. They inhabit freshwater lakes, ponds, and marshes. Redheads are social, forming large flocks outside of breeding season. They dive for aquatic plants and invertebrates. 1.5 Flash (Edited)

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

📷: Photo by MountainDweller via Pixabay

AFLI

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A Northern shoveler meandering around Pine Lake in the golden afternoon light.

📷 #Nikon #Z8 + Nikkor 180-600mm (ISO 450, f6.3, 1/1600s)

#birds #birdphotography #waterfowl

A Northern shoveler floating in water. The bird has a large, flat duck-bill and is tan, with white and brown patterning, from its head to its tail feathers. The bird's eye is light brown. The water is rippling around the bird's body.

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Just looking at a satellite image of part of the canal, by using a mapping app.

What are those white things in the canal? Surely they're not geese? There are white geese at that location, but not that many! If they are geese, were they migrating? Flew in just for this photo?

For scale, along the left bank there's a narrowboat, probably 45 feet (14 meters) judging by its proportions.

#CanalLife #canal #boating #boat #narrowboat #bird #AquaticBird #waterfowl #goose #geese #satellite #photo #map

A satellite image of a canal, a screenshot of a map app. Zoomed in, the photo is a bit blurry. It is cropped into a square. All of the map app's navigation features have been cropped out.

To the canal's left, running parallel are:, a towpath, a few frees casting shadows, a road, a row of small bushes, and some mowed grass. From the shadows of the trees, we know the photo was taken in the morning.

To the right of the canal is a large, green, grassy stretch, which takes up about a third of the photo.

In the canal itself is one relatively short narrowboat, tied up on the towpath side. And then there's the mysterious thing: perhaps 150 to 200 blurry while blobs, floating on the water, bunched together, stretching from the bottom to the top of the frame. Are they birds?

I know from past visits that there are geese, here – noisy ones, numbering about 25, not several hundred. And almost always some of them are on land. It strikes me as odd.

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🌏 Australian shelduck (Tadorna tadornoides) #AustralianBirds | #AustralianShelduck #ChestnutBreastedShelduck #MountainDuck #Shelducks #Ducks #Waterfowl | #birds🦜 #birdsoftheworld

📷: Australian shelduck (Tadorna tadornoides) by pen_ash via Pixabay 2021

The photo shows a large and striking goose-like duck. Males (pictured) are predominantly dark with a chestnut breast, a white neck collar, and a dark green head. Females are similar but with a white eye ring and smaller size. Both sexes have chestnut and black wings with a green patch, and show white on their wings in flight.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN 3.1)

Distribution: Breeding in southern Australia and Tasmania, many birds migrate further north in the country during winter.

Class: Aves (Birds)
Order: Anseriformes (Waterfowl)
Family: Anatidae (Duck, Geese and Swan family)
Genus: Tadorna (Shelducks)
Species: T. tadornoides

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🤣 #Birds #quebec #waterfowl

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Another pretty mallard silhouette from last Saturday's sunset. For various reasons I haven't been able to get out on the lake to watch as many sunsets this summer. I'll have to remedy that in August.

July 20, 2024. Wolverine Lake, Michigan.

#duck #ducks #mallard #mallards #bird #birds #birdsofmastodon #waterfowl #michigan #sunset #sunsetphotography #photography

Sunset photo of a mallard in silhouette swimming on a still lake from left to right with pinks, greys, and blues reflected in the water.

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Ring Necked Duck Santa Ana NWR Texas by Debra Martz
It was close to the end of our hike at the wildlife refuge & were looking for a connecting trail leading to the parking lot. We had made our way around the Willow Lakes Trail when I looked back & saw this duck so I had to backtrack for a better view. Note the 2 dragonflies over her head!

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