What's That Duck?: A Practical Guide for Learning How to Identify Female Ducks

This book is written specifically for beginning to intermediate birders who have a pretty good idea of what they’re looking at when they see male ducks, but are still mystified by the females.

It’s easy enough to recognize a female duck by the company she keeps, whether within a flotilla of her own kind, or she and her mate diving or dabbling for food. But what about when she is on her own or amid a mixture of other females?

Fully illustrated with 101 color photographs of 19 common North American species, What's That Duck will help readers learn to identify female ducks by their:

• Relative size and shape
• Feather patterns and colors
• Bill shape and colors
• Eye color
• Foot and leg color, and
• Specific behaviors, including diving or dabbling.