The American Wigeon is another duck species passing through our area right now.
Breeding males have a green eye patch and a conspicuous white crown, earning them the nickname "baldpate." Females are brushed in warm browns with a gray-brown head and a smudge around the eye.
They make there home in
quiet lakes and wetlands.
Groups congregate during fall and winter, plucking plants with their short gooselike bill from wetlands and fields or nibbling plants from the water's surface.
Despite being common their populations are declining. Cornell All About Birds
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