A female wood duck is an overall gray with some blue and purple wing markings, a white eye ring, brown eyes and a duller bill. During courtship, a male wood duck raises its regal crest ...

Challenging on the wing, widely distributed, and excellent on the table, the canvasback is the paragon of diving ducks, just as the mallard symbolizes ... Like her male companion, the hen ...

Often seen as merely a bonus duck to those seeking mallards ... thinner neck and more streamlined back-swept wings when compared, again, to the mallard. Hen gadwalls make a quack similar to ...