Mallard (female).
18 to 27 inches in length. The male has a green head, white neck ring, chestnut breast and a grayish body. Their secondary wing feathers are metallic purplish blue, bordered in front and back with white. The female is mottled brown with a white tail and purplish-blue secondary wing feathers. The bill is mttled orange and black.
They inhabit ponds, lakes and marshes. Semi-domesticated birds may be found on almost any body of water.
They range from Alaska east to Quebec and south from southern Californiain the west and Virginia in the east. They winter throughout the United States.
Sterling State Park, Monrow County, Michigan.