Ducks At A Distance

Migration carries a hypnotic pull

Migration carries a hypnotic pull
POOL 5, MISSISSIPPI RIVER — The canvasback is North America’s fastest duck. Either that or it isn’t. Around here Thursday, pushed by a strong northwest wind, everything that flew was quick, even tundra swans, but more so the thousands of ring-necked ducks that traded up and down the Mississippi — also the scaup but most magnificently the canvasbacks, some 300,000 of which will gather along this …
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Cool Duck Migration images

Check out these duck migration images:

Ring-Necked Duck
duck migration

Image by rengel134
[Aythya collaris ] Taken in Braddok Bay disorder park in Greece N.Y. The most common diving duck to be found on small ponds in migration, the Ring-necked Duck is more easily recognized by the bold white ring around its bill than the devious purplish one around its neck

Many more ducks
duck migration

Image by august allen
Please, for the like of God, look at this large.

Rubber duck migration
duck migration

Image by John Linwood
The main pack passes under Hampton Court bridge

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2009 DU Waterfowl Migration Map


Follow the ducks on their annual journey south on the Ducks Boundless Waterfowl Migration Map. The map is back in action for the 2009-2010 season and duck hunters are flocking to the map in confirmation facts.

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