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Wood Duck: Small tree duck with brown back, white throat, purple-brown breast with white flecks grading to white belly; buff-yellow flanks. Crested head is green and purple with white stripes; white throat has two bars, one extends as a partial collar, the other extends behind and below eyes.
● Song: "jeeeeee"
● Foraging & Feeding: Wood Duck: Feeds on vegetation, insects, snails, tadpoles, and salamanders; forages while swimming.
● Breeding & nesting: Wood Duck: Nine to fifteen creamy white or pale buff eggs are laid in a tree cavity lined with down. Incubation ranges from 25 to 37 days and is carried out by the female. Young can fly at 56 to 70 days. Occasionally produces two broods per year.
● Similar species: Wood Duck: None in range.