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• Mallard

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: white ringed neck, dark green head

  
• Woodduck

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: green mullet, white bridle, colorful feathers, orange white and black bill

  
• Redhead

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: rounded red head, yellow eyes, black tipped bill, black chest

  
• Canvasback

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: black forehead, red head, long black bill

  
• Northern Pintail

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: sharp pointed tail, brown head, white neck stripe

  
• American wigeon

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: green behind eyes, buffed patch on forehead

  
• Gadwall

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: puffy head, white outlined feathers

  
• Green winged teal

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: green behind eyes, rufous head, green wing feathers

  
• Cinnamon teal

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: cinnamon colored head and body, red eyes, blue/green wing feathers

  
• Blue winged teal

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: white crescent around eye, white hip patch, blue wing feathers

  
• Ring Necked Duck

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: white outline on bill, soft red ring around neck, white spur, yellow eyes

  
• Northern Shoveler

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: green head, yellow eyes, rufous flanks, flattened bill

  
• Lesser Scaup

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: yellow eye, oreo body, green tinged head

  
• Bufflehead

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: colorful head, white all the way to the back of the head from the eye

  
• Hooded merganser

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: black outlined patch on head, yellow eyes

  
• Barrow's goldeneye

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: crescent whit mark on face, flat head, yellow eyes

  
• Common goldeneye

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: round mark on face, tall peaked head, yellow eye

  
• Common Merganser

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: curved bill, orange head (nonbreeding), green head (breeding), white chest

  
• Trumpeter swan

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: long straight bill pointed to the eye

  
• Tundra swan

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: straight bill rounded to eye

  
• Ross's Goose

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: clean white body, dark feathers at the ends of wings

  
• Snow Goose

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: pink legs and bill, almost identical to Ross's goose

  
• Cackling goose

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: short neck, short round bill

  
• Canada Goose

  Order: anseriformes

  Family: anatidae

  Characteristics: long neck, long curved bill

  
• Ruffed grouse

  Order: galliformes

  Family: phasianidae

  Characteristics: rounded flared tail, mohawk, dark bars on chest

  
• Sharp Tailed Grouse

  Order: galliformes

  Family: phasianidae

  Characteristics: sharp pointed tail, chevron pattern chest

  
• Ring Necked Pheasant

  Order: galliformes

  Family: Phasianidae

  Characteristics: white ring neck, red facial skin, colorful feathers

  
• Gray Partridge

  Order: galliformes

  Family: phasianidae

  Characteristics: rufous face, dull gray body

  
• Dusky Grouse

  Order: galliformes

  Family: phasianidae

  Characteristics: dark grey, rounded flared tail

  
• Chukar

  Order: galliformes

  Family: phasianidae

  Characteristics: boldly barred flanks, red bill, cream colored throat, black band around eye

  
• Wild turkey

  Order: galliformes

  Family: phasianidae

  
• Common loon

  Order: gaviiformes

  Family: gaviidae

  Characteristics: midnight sky bacak, sharp pointed bill, red eyes, white striped ring neck

  
• Eared Grebe

  Order: podicipediformes

  Family: podicipedidae

  Characteristics: yellow plumes, red eye, black mohawk

  
• Clark's Grebe

  Order: podicipediformes

  Family: podicipedidae

  Characteristics: white surrounds red eye, bright yellow/orange long pointed bill

  
• Western Grebe

  Order: podicipediformes

  Family: podicipedidae

  Characteristics: black surrounds red eye, yellow/olive long pointed bill

  
• Pie Billed Grebe

  Order: podicipediformes

  Family: podicipedidae

  Characteristics: black band on white beak

  
• Horned Grebe

  Order: podicipediformes

  Family: podicipedidae

  Characteristics: orange fluffy plumes, red eye, rufous flanks and chest

  
• Double Crested Cormorant

  Order: suliformes

  Family: phalacrocoracidae

  Characteristics: curved orange bill, long neck, dark body

  
• American White Pelican

  Order: suliformes

  Family: pelecanidae

  
• Snowy Egret

  Order: suliformes

  Family: ardeidae

  Characteristics: long pointed black bill, long white neck and body, long black legs