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Waterfowl Identification Workshop 5: Not Everything That Swims is a Duck
Kevin J. McGowan
Basic Waterfowl Diversity
Trumpeter Swan
• Swans
© Kevin J. McGowan
• Dabbling Ducks
Mallard
© Kevin J. McGowan
• Geese
Canada Goose © Kevin J. McGowan
• Diving Ducks
Redhead
© Kevin J. McGowan
• Whistling‐Ducks
• Sea Ducks
Black‐bellied Whistling‐Duck
• Not‐Ducks
© Kevin J. McGowan
King Eider
• Mergansers
© Jay W. McGowan
Common Merganser
Common Loon© © Kevin J. McGowan
Kevin J. McGowan
Swans
Tundra Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Mute Swan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
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Mute Swan
© Jay W. McGowan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Trumpeter Swan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Tundra Swan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
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Trumpeter vs. Tundra Swan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Trumpeter vs. Tundra Swan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Trumpeter Swan
Tundra Swan
Trumpeter vs. Tundra Swan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
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Trumpeter vs. Tundra Swan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Juvenile Swans
Tundra Swan
Trumpeter Swan
Mute Swan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Geese
© Kevin J. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
Canada Goose
Greater White‐fronted Goose
© Kevin J. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
Snow Goose
© Jay W. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
Cackling Goose
Ross’s Goose
Brant
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Geese
Canada Goose
Greater White‐fronted Goose
Snow Goose
Cackling Goose
Ross’s Goose
Brant
© Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Canada Goose
♂
♀
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Cackling Goose
© Jay W. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
♂
© Jay W. McGowan
♀
© Jay W. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
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Cackling Goose
© Kevin J. McGowan
Cackling vs. Canada
Canada and Cackling geese © Kevin J. McGowan
Cackling Geese © Kevin J. McGowan
Canada Geese © Kevin J. McGowan
White‐fronted Goose
♂
© Jay W. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
♀
© Jay W. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
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Snow Goose
© Jay W. McGowan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Ross’s Goose
♂
©Dan Garber
© Kevin J. McGowan
♀
©Dan Garber
© Jay W. McGowan
©Jay W. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
Brant
♂
♀
All © Kevin J. McGowan
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Domestics
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Domestic Hybrids
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Wild Hybrids
© Jay W. McGowan
All © Kevin J. McGowan
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Basic Waterfowl Diversity – Not Ducks
Grebes
Loons
Coots
Cormorants
Gulls
© Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Loons
Common Loon
Pacific Loon
Red‐throated Loon
©Jay W. McGowan
© Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Common Loon
All © Kevin J. McGowan
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Red‐throated Loon
© Jay W. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
©Jason Crotty
©Chris Wood
©Dominic Sherony
© Jay W. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
Pacific Loon
© Jay W. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
Grebes
Least Grebe
Pied‐billed Grebe
Red‐necked Grebe
Horned Grebe
Western Grebe
Eared Grebe
Clark’s Grebe
© Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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Least Grebe
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Pied‐billed Grebe
All © Kevin J. McGowan
Horned Grebe
© Mary Jo Adams
All © Kevin J. McGowan
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Eared Grebe
© Kevin J. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
© Jay W. McGowan
Red‐necked Grebe
© Jay W. McGowan
© Sharon Larson
© Kevin J. McGowan
© Kevin J. McGowan
Western Grebe
©Donald Dvorak
©Dominic Sherony
©Bill Telfair
©Jay W. McGowan
©Carrie Steingruber
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Clark’s Grebe
©Jay W. McGowan
©John West
©Dominic Sherony
Western vs. Clark’s Grebe
©Dominic Sherony
©Jay W. McGowan
http://macaulaylibrary.org/guide/voices‐of‐ducks‐geese‐and‐waterfowl
© Cornell Lab of Ornithology
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