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Key Identification Features [edit]
aka Ca: Ànec carolí Da: Brudeand De: Brautente Es: Pato joyuyo Fi: morsiosorsa Fr: Canard carolin It: Anatra sposa Nl: Carolina-eend No: Brudeand Pt: Pato-carolino Sv: Brudand US: Wood Duck Ru: Каролинская утка
Wood ducks are small to medium sized birds. Both male and female adults have a crest on their head, a rectangular shaped tail, white bellies and white lines on the back of the wings. Males are 48 to 54 cm long, while females are 47 to 51 cm long. Their wingspans are 70 to 73 cm long and they weigh between 500 and 700 g.
The males' heads are iridescent green, blue and purple and have two white lines that are parallel and run from the base of the bill and behind the eye to the back of the head. Male wood ducks also have red eyes, red at the base of the bill, rust-colored chests, bronze sides and black backs and tails.
The females are brownish to gray and have white eye rings, white throats and gray chests.
Juvenile wood ducks resemble adult females.
Range: Continent, country or more local rang. Resident or months present [edit]
Found on the east coast of North America from Nova Scotia in the north, to Florida and the Gulf of Mexico in the south, and west to the center of the United States
Habitat: estuary, rainforest, mountains, desert etc [edit]
Wood ducks occupy a wide variety of habitats including woodland areas along lakes, rivers, creeks, beaver and farm ponds and various other freshwater vegetated wetland areas