Wood Duck (female).
17 to 20 inches in length. A crested, multicolored duck. The male is patterned in iridescent greens, purples and blues with a distinctive white chin patch and face stripes with a mainly red bill and long tail. The female is grayish with a broad white eye ring.
They inhabit wooded rivers and ponds and wooded swamps. VIsits freshwater marshes in late summer and fall.
They range from British Columbia south to California and from Montana east to Nova Scotia and south to Texas and Florida. They are absent in the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. Winters near Pacific Coast north to Washington and to New Jersy in the Eastern United States but rarely further north.
Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.