If you see a medium to medium-large duck with a white speculum, which is the secondary or bottom wing feathers, it’s a gadwall. The gray duck’s visual claim to fame is it’s the only North ...

A female wood duck is an overall gray with some blue and purple wing markings, a white eye ring, brown eyes and a duller bill. During courtship, a male wood duck raises its regal crest ...

To the waterfowl enthusiast, the canvasback duck channels ... and white or silvery-white back and sides. In flight, his profile is often obvious, as are his swept-back wings and extremely rapid ...

When is a duck not a duck? The answer is … when it is a merganser. So, what is a merganser? The mergansers are fish-eating ducks with many different adaptations that make them very different ...