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Ducks, Water Birds, Limpkins and Cranes


Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, 2010 Green Cay field trip.
Flying.
Immature and adult (Elsa Millard)

Muscovy Duck, taken in Port St. Lucie in January 2010. More often seen in domestic form with white, but is reverting to wild as it breeds here.
 
Wood Duck

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Mallards, female and male, 2010

Mottled Ducks, photographed on Vero Beach Wetlands field trip, March 2009. Male, left; female, right.
Blue-winged Teal
Blue-winged Teal, Viera, 2011 (Sam Fried)

Flock in flight, (H. Rufe) field trip to Viera Wetlands in Jan. 2009.
Green-winged Teal
Green-winged Teal, photographed in on field trip to Green Cay in early 2010.

 In the water.

Canvasback, photographed near Sunrise Avenue, White City, during 2009 Christmas Count

Ring-necked Duck, male, photographed on field trip to Viera Wetlands in Jan. 2009,

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Hooded Mergansers, photographed on field trip to Viera Wetlands in Jan. 2009

In flight (click). (Sam Fried)
Red-breasted Merganser
Red-breasted Merganser
 

Sora, photographed by Elsa Millard on Green Cay field trip in Feb. 2009.
Another view (H. Rufe)

Common Moorhen, photographed Feb. 2009
Purple Gallinule
Purple Gallinule, photographed during field trip in February 2008, Green Cay, Palm Beach County 
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Common Moorhen, left,  and Purple Gallinule share shore with turtle. Photographed at Green Cay.

American Coot,, photographed by Anjula Smith on Green Cay field trip, Feb. 2009.

Limpkin, photographed during field trip in February 2009, Torino Parkway Canal

Limpkin and chicks, photographed on field trip to Green Cay, 2008.

Another view
 
 
Sandhill Crane, nesting in High Point, St. Lucie County, mid-March 2008.

In synchronized flight
 Another view.

Sandhill Crane chicks, in High Point, St. Lucie County, mid-March 2008.  br />
Cranes Family Album