American Wigeon
Mareca americana
Family: Ducks, geese, and waterfowl
American Wigeon is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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The clutch is 7–9, cream-colored eggs, which measure on average 52.9 mm × 37.5 mm and weigh 43 g.
Wigeons also commonly feed on dry land, eating waste grain in harvested fields and grazing on pasture grasses, winter wheat, clover, and lettuce.
It is a bird of open wetlands, such as wet grassland or marshes with some taller vegetation, and usually feeds by dabbling for plant food or grazing, which it does very readily.