Redhead
Redhead (Aythya americana)
What they look like: Males in breeding plumage have a gray body, black rump and breast, and a bright reddish-brown head. They have a yellow eye and a light blue bill with a black tip (see photo).
Redhead Duck (Aytha Americana)
You can see this interesting species of duck in our New England Farmyard. The males have a deep 'meow'
or 'purr' when they call, while the females call with a typical 'squawk' or 'quack'.
Redhead Aythya americana
Identification Tips:
Length: 14.5 inches Wingspan: 33 inches
Medium-sized diving duck
Smoothly rounded head
Dark wing with grayish secondaries ...
Redhead
Relatives in same Genus
Lesser Scaup (A. affinis)
Ring-necked Duck (A. collaris)
Tufted Duck (A. fuligula)
Greater Scaup (A. marila)
Canvasback (A. valisineria) ...
Redhead
Aythya americana
The Redhead (Aythya americana) is a widespread North American duck which breeds across the northern half of the United States and parts of southern Canada. The species winters across the southern half of the U.S.
Redhead (Aythya americana)
No photo of the Redhead available.
The Redhead is from the order Anseriformes. Anseriformes are birds, with over 150 species belonging to this order.
Redheads can be found across much of North America from Alaska to Tabasco, Mexico. Most Redheads breed at scattered sites from the Great Plains westward through Nevada and north into the Northwest Territories.
Redhead Ducks are found in shallow freshwater lakes, ponds marshlands, coastal waters and bays. These environments are perfect for their feeding and breeding sites.
Redhead: Medium-sized diving duck with gray back and sides, black upper back, breast, rump, and tail, and white belly. Head and neck are rufous-brown, and blue-gray bill is black-tipped; eyes are yellow.
Redhead Behaviour
No observations regarding Redhead behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about Redheads ...
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Redhead
(Aythya americana)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2011
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Occurs as an uncommon migrant, mainly in the spring.
The Redhead regularly lay eggs in the nests of other birds, sometimes including non-duck species such as bitterns and herons. Some female Redheads never raise their own young, only parasitizing other species' nests.
Laying in nests of other Redheads is more successful than laying in nests of other species (chief victim is Canvasback, but other ducks readily parasitized, as well). Females use ca.
Redhead
Aythya americana (Eyton)
Status Rare in summer, very rare in winter. Breeds. The first record of this species was of one shot near Sambro, Halifax County, late in the nineteenth century (Jones 1885).
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Redhead Aythya americana Found: North America
Photographed by: 1, 2, 5) Dick Daniels at Flamingo Gardens in Flroida 3) Kevin Bercaw 4) Dick Daniels at Sylvan Heights ...
Redheads are similar but have yellow eyes, blue bill with a black tip, grayer back and the head profile is different. The Canvasback's call is short low croaks. The female quacks.
Redhead Aythya americana. Uncommon in winter, spring, and fall, and occasional in summer in all regions. Found on lakes, rivers, and bays in fresh, brackish, or salt water. MODERATE CONSERVATION CONCERN.
Redhead
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Common Redpoll
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Male redheads are gray with a black chest and a red head. Females are brown all over. Both sexes have a bluish bill with a light strip across the bottom and a black tip.
Habit: ...
Clutch size/incubation - Determining the clutch size in canvasback nests is complicated by the effect of redhead (Aythya americana) parasitism on the number of host eggs. When redheads lay in canvasback nests, host clutches are reduced in size.
Redheads noted.
Lesser Scaup - 5+. Mixed in with Greater Scaup flock. Hard to tell due
to diving and distance, but I think at least 5.
Surf Scoter - 5 in middle of bay
White-winged Scoter - 1 in middle of bay
Red-throated Loon - 2.
There are some rather fierce centipedes living on the planet such as the 'Giant Redheaded Centipede'. They are fast moving and very aggressive. They are about 6 inches long but some can be 8 inches long.
Besides the Ring-Necked Deck, we have the Greater and Lesser Scaups, Tufted Duck (uncommon), Redhead, and Canvasback. Most of the other Aythya species are Pochards (the Redhead has been called American Pochard).
villosus, the red-crested pileated woodpecker, or logcock, Hylotomus pileatus (about 17 in./44.3 cm long), which is similar to the nearly extinct ivory-billed woodpecker; the redheaded and three-toed woodpeckers, genus Picoides; ...
Lilac-crowned Amazon
Mealy Amazon
Mexican Redhead or Green-cheeked Amazons
Orange-winged Amazon
Panama Amazon
Red-lored Amazon
White-fronted Amazon
Yellow-crowned or Yellow-fronted Amazon
Yellow-naped Amazon ...
RED-HEADED DUCK.
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FULIGULA FERINA, Linn.
[Aythya americana.] ...
The Pochard forms a superspecies with the Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) of North America although it looks superficially more like the Redhead (Aythya americana) also of North America but which has a yellow iris rather than a red one in the male.
Black Tern abundance was positively correlated to hectares of open water and to hectares of dead cattails. Abundance also was positively related to the number of Mallards, Blue-winged Teal, Redheads, and Yellow-headed Blackbirds.
The adult female has a brown head and body and a narrower grey bill band. The triangular head shape is distinctive. Pochards are superficially similar to the closely related North American Redhead and Canvasback.
The Golden's coat can also be what people call a 'mahogany' color, or what people see as
'redheads' in people. As a Golden grows older
their coats can become darker shades or lighter ...
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redstripe tilefish (Hoplolatilus marcosi)
redtooth trigger (Odonus niger)
regal angel (Pygoplites diacanthus)
resplendent pygmy angel (Centropyge resplendens) ...
 See also: Duck, Canvasback, Scaup, Ring-necked Duck, Wigeon
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