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Sandhill Cranes.

Between 34 to 48 inches in length with a wingspan of nearly 7 feet. They are very tall with a long neck and long legs. Largely gray with a red forehead. Juveniles are browner and have no red on head. Their plumage often appears a rusty color because of iron stains from water of ponds or marshes.

They inhabit large freshwater marshes, prairie ponds and marshy tundra. They are also on prairies and grain fields during migration and in winter.

They range from Siberia and Alaska to the Hudson Bay and south into western Ontario. There are isolated populations in: the Rocky Mountains, the northern prairies, the Great Lakes, Mississippi, Georgia and Florida. They winter in California's Central Valley and across the southern states from Arizona to Florida.

Kensington Metropark, Livingston County, Michigan.

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Wood Duck - 2020-08-22
by DL_Dietz

Wood Duck - 2020-08-22

by DL_Dietz

A Canon EOS 5D Mark IV — 1/500s ƒ/6.3 ISO 640 at 552 mm

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Wood Duck (female) on Wildwing Lake.

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.

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