The Lesser Scaup is a gorgeous bird quite distinctive
especially with its’ bluish bill.
Sometimes birds are, for me, difficult to identify and I have found that
having several different bird books is really helpful.
Ducks are among the best known of what biologists call
‘precocial birds’. That is they come
from the egg with eyes wide open, covered with a suit of natal down for
insulation and ready for action, such as leaping from a high wooded nest at one
day old and then following the mother to the water and as young as three days
are diving and catching minnows– as opposed to ‘altricial birds’ which hatch
naked, blind and helpless and are supported in nest for days by the parents.
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