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Anas strepera
Residency: Spends winters throughout state.
Diet: Eats seeds and vegetative parts of aquatic plants.
Predators: Peregrine Falcon, Northern Harrier and Coyote.
Nesting: Made of plant material and down and well hidden under plant cover. Nest colonially on island. Eggs are 7-13 per clutch, white, 1 brood per year.
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Notes: When being attacked will “feign death” or try to submerge in water.
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