Scientific Name: Anas crecca
Residency: Winters throughout Arizona. 
Diet: Eats soft parts of aquatic plants and seeds. When visiting grain fields eats seeds, wheat oats and buckwheat.
Predators: Northern Harrier, Peregrine Falcon, and Harris Hawk will take adults. American Crows and Black-billed Magpie eat eggs.
Nesting: Made of grasses, weeds, and down in a depression in the ground. Eggs are 7-15 per clutch, pale olive-buff, 1 brood per year.
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Notes: Does courtship displays from winter through spring.
Photo: Taken at the Riparian Preserve at the Gilbert Water Ranch on February 17, 2007.

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