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- Mute Swan
- prominent black knob, orange bill
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- Brant
- black and white speckled necklace
- Black Head
- (spot missing)
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- Wood Duck
- thin slim beak, top lip curls over to crack nuts
- M- rainbow wing and back, green head, yellow/orange/white bill
- F- slender body, few rainbow feathers in wings
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- Blue-Winged Teal
- little bigger than Green-Winged
- blue-green wings
- M- white crescent on face
- F- brown speckled
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- Green-Winged Teal
- only green wings
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- American Black Duck
- brown, blue spots on wing, hook on head, yellow paper
- (female malard has white perimeter around blue)
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- Northern Pintail
- all brown heads
- M- long tail, white chest
- F- back and yellow beak, beak shorter, short tail, black and yellow
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- Northern Shoveler
- shovel beak
- M- green and brown
- F- no white, light brown speckle
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- Gadwall
- one white patch on wing
- losing feathers
- dark chestnut spot on wing
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- Canvasback
- M- sharp contrast neck (brown, black, white stripes), wedge-shaped head, broken bill
- F- brown head and chest, salt and pepper feathers on back
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- Snow Goose
- grazing bill, brown/white speckled face, white body, black ends of wings (scary)
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- Canada Goose
- male and female same
- grazing bill
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- American Wigeon
- broken neck
- speckled head, brown chest, white body
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- Greater Scaup
- BLUE BEAK
- bigger Scaup, green/purple head
- full white patch across wing
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- Lesser Scaup
- M- black beak w/ white outline of feathers, brown head, white brown body, molting
- F- white feathers half way down wing
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- Common Eider
- M- black, white, some lime green on head
- F- larger HUGE, brown speckle
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- Long-tail duck
- M- sharper brown and white, black and yellow beak, brown chest, long tail
- F- darker white, no tail (stubby feathers), mostly white chest, brown yellow beak
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- Black Scoter
- small bills
- M- all black, orange/black bill "butter bill"
- F- all brown, buzz cut hair
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- Surf Scoter
- M- black, 2 white patches on head (top and back), odd yellow bill, (pterodactyl)
- F- small bill
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- White-Winged ScoterProminent white patch on speculum (wing)
- M- black/brown body, white spot on head
- F- brown body, some white on head
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- Bufflehead
- smooth green head like merganser
- M- rainbow(irradecent) head w/ big white patch, lots of white splattered on body
- F- small white patch on head, splashes of white specks on body and wing
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- Hooded Merganser
- punked hair
- same bill as red-breasted (long and pointy for fish)
- white belly
- M-Black head w/ White spot more black on back
- F- Brown
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- Red-breasted Merganser
- frilly punked hair, white wing patch
- M- black head w/ some green, sharp white neckline/collar, speckled neck and white belly.
- F- skinny head, BIG head/chin, ripped neck, grey/white neckline
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