Ducks, Ducks, Ducks

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1. This duck is the most common in the UK and is found all over the Northern Hemisphere. The females are speckled brown and the males have iridescent green heads. What duck is it? Answer: (One Word)

2. Ducks have 2 ways to feed. What are these? Pecking and diving Feeding on reeds and eating egg shells Catching insects in flight and hunting fish Surface Feeding and Diving

3. In the summer the male of this duck has chestnut coloured plumage and its bill is blue. It lives on marshes and shallow pools. What is this duck? Ruddy Duck Blue Billed Shoveller Blue Beaked Scoter Chestnut Blue Duck

4. Which of these is NOT a real duck? Common Merganser Hooded Merganser Red Breasted Merganser Pink Toed Merganser

5. This sea faring duck has amazing feathers. The male has striking black and white and the female is a dull speckled brown with greyish underwing. Which duck is it? Common Eider Ferruginous Duck Eiderdown Duck King Eider

6. Most wild ducks fly south for the winter, but what are they doing in the north in the first place? Visiting relatives Growing up Stocking up on feed Breeding

7. The male of this duck could not be mistaken for any other. Its plumage is many different colours including red, orange, blue and cream. It also has black and white stripes on its chest. Another striking feature is the orange trianguar feathers which stand upright at the tip of its wing. What is this duck? Mandarin duck Wood Duck Red crested Pochard Cinnamon Teal

8. Why are male ducks more prominently coloured? For display For camouflage To aid identification To make them easier targets for hunters

9. This duck is large, almost gooselike in shape, is black and white, although the head can look green. The beak is vivid red and in males is shaped at the base like a swan. There is a chestnut band on the breast and a black stripe on wings. What duck is this? Gadwall Scaup Shelduck Scoter

10. Most ducks can be placed into one of four main groups. The dabbling duck, diving ducks and sawbills are three, what is the fourth? Ocean Duck Sea duck Shoveller Goose