Ring-necked Duck Images

Ring-necked Duck Images, Facts and Information:

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  • Ring-necked Ducks are medium sized diving ducks. Drakes have black upperparts, glossy purple-black heads, black necks, upper breasts and tails. Their bellies and lower breasts are white and their sides are pale gray. Their cinnamon colored collar can be hard to see in the field. Bills are blue gray with a white ring and black tip. Female Ring-necked Ducks are brown overall with gray-brown faces and throats, they have a white eye ring and weak eye stripes and have a white patch at the bases of their bills.
  • Ring-necked Ducks are migratory. They breed from Alaska south to California, Arizona, the Great Lakes and Maine. Ring-necked Ducks spend winters from southeast Alaska south along the Pacific coast, east through the the southwest, the Gulf Coast states and north into New England. They can be found on wooded lakes, ponds, rivers and in southern states, along the coast.
  • Ring-necked Ducks eat aquatic plants, seeds, insects, mollusks, worms and crustaceans. They dive and dabble to feed.
  • Ring-necked Ducks lay 6 to 14 eggs which hatch in 25 to 29 days. The females incubate and they are monogamous.
  • A group of ducks can be called a “raft”, “paddling”, “flush” or “brace” of ducks.
  • Ring-necked Ducks can live to be more than 20 years of age.

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