Ruddy Duck
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Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensis
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Map & range may not be to any scale.
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Female has same plumage year round.
Top half of female's head is dark, bottom half light with a brown line separating.
Female also will lay eggs in other ducks nest.
Eats aquatic plants off bottom of lakes, eats crustaceans and aquatic insects.
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Female Ruddy duck.
Note the very wide bill, almost looks like a shoveler's bill, but is shorter.
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Female with a Green Heron in the back ground.
The above images were taken at Gilbert Arizona
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Lower images were taken at Tucson, Arizona's, "Sweet Water Wet Lands"
Male Ruddy, note the Blue Bill
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