- Anas clypeata
Identification
Male has bottle green, chestnut flanks, white breast. In flight, pale blue forewing feathers are revealed, separated from the green speculum by a white border.
The females are light brown, with plumage much like a female Mallard, but their long broad bill easily identifies them. The female's forewing is grey.
Distribution
Northern areas of Europe and Asia and across most of North America.
Taxonomy
Habitat
It is a bird of open wetlands, such as wet grassland or marshes with some emergent vegetation,
Behaviour
It feeds by dabbling for plant food, often by swinging its bill from side to side and using the bill to strain food from the water. This bird also eats molluscs and insects in the nesting season.
The nest is a shallow depression on the ground, lined with plant material and down, usually close to water.
This is a fairly quiet species. The male has a clunking call, whereas the female has a mallard-like quack.
Females make quacking noises. Males a deep took took
Bird Song
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