Breeding male © Arpit Bansal eBird S128228173 Macaulay Library ML 538866171
Female © Anonymous
Nonbreeding male © Allen Lyu
Breeding male © Yann Muzika
Female © Christopher Escott
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Breeding male © Len Blumin

Falcated Duck Mareca falcata

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Identification

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An East Asian teal-like duck. Males are distinctive, with an iridescent head that flashes green and copper, a silvery body with distinct scalloping, extremely long curved tertials, long pale scapulars, and a triangular white throat patch outlined in dark green. Brownish females resemble female Gadwall but have a dark bill. Breeds in northern interior marshes and winters on rivers, lakes, and coastal wetlands, often in flocks with other ducks.

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