Throughout my birding career, which spans to a greater extent than than 40 years, ring-necked ducks bring normally been "also rans" on my plain trips. Best identified yesteryear the prominent white band on their bills (they should endure called "ring-billed ducks"), they bring mostly been outnumbered yesteryear other waterfowl species.
Yesterday, on an afternoon walk at South Platte Park, the tables were turned. While the largest lake was mostly iced over, smaller ponds had thawed in addition to ring-necked ducks (totaling 83) were to a greater extent than than twice equally numerous equally the runner-up (northern shovelers). Prior to that plain trip, I had seen no to a greater extent than than 6 ring-necks at whatever place during the electrical current wintertime waterfowl season.
After breeding across Canada, the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes portion in addition to northern New England, where they prefer freshwater, woodland lakes, ring-necked ducks mostly pass the wintertime across the southern one-half of the US or further southward inwards Central America. Though they are diving ducks, feeding on aquatic plants in addition to invertebrates, they besides feed inwards shallow H2O in addition to may fifty-fifty scour flooded fields for waste materials grain. Yesterday's incursion was a particular process for me only nowhere nigh the tape for Colorado (1400) or for Arapahoe County (413), equally documented on eBird.
Yesterday, on an afternoon walk at South Platte Park, the tables were turned. While the largest lake was mostly iced over, smaller ponds had thawed in addition to ring-necked ducks (totaling 83) were to a greater extent than than twice equally numerous equally the runner-up (northern shovelers). Prior to that plain trip, I had seen no to a greater extent than than 6 ring-necks at whatever place during the electrical current wintertime waterfowl season.
After breeding across Canada, the Pacific Northwest, the Great Lakes portion in addition to northern New England, where they prefer freshwater, woodland lakes, ring-necked ducks mostly pass the wintertime across the southern one-half of the US or further southward inwards Central America. Though they are diving ducks, feeding on aquatic plants in addition to invertebrates, they besides feed inwards shallow H2O in addition to may fifty-fifty scour flooded fields for waste materials grain. Yesterday's incursion was a particular process for me only nowhere nigh the tape for Colorado (1400) or for Arapahoe County (413), equally documented on eBird.
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