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Redhead
Aythya americana

Medium-sized duck
Rounded head
Bill blue with black tip
Male with bright red head, gray back, and black chest and rear end
Size: 17-21 in
Wingspan: 30-31 in
Weight: 22-53 ounces
Breeding male boldly patterned with red head and black ends; female more subtly marked in grays and browns

Syllables: red-head
Pronunciation: rehd hehd



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The Redhead (Aythya americana)
is a medium-sized diving duck, 37 cm long with an 84 cm wingspan.

The adult male has a blue bill, a red head and neck, a black breast, yellow eyes and a grey back. The adult female has a brown head and body and a darker bluish bill with a black tip.

The breeding habitat is marshes and prairie potholes in western North America. Loss of nesting habitat has led to sharply declining populations. Females regularly lay eggs in the nests of other Redheads or other ducks, especially Canvasbacks>. Redheads usually take new mates each year, starting to pair in late winter.

Following the breeding season, males go through a molt, which leaves them flightless for almost a month. Before this happens, they leave their mates and move to large bodies of water, usually flying further north.

They over winter in the southern and north-eastern United States , the Great Lakes region, northern Mexico and the Caribbean.

This strong migrant is a very rare vagrant to Western Europe.

These birds feed mainly by diving or dabbling. They mainly eat aquatic plants with some molluscs, aquatic insects and small fish.

Redhead

Scientific classification

         Kingdom: Animalia
         Phylum:   Chordata
         Class:   Aves
         Order:   Anseriformes
         Family:   Anatidae
         Genus:   Aythya
         Species:  A. Americana

Binomial name
Aythya americana