Male Red-headed Duck
With a gleaming cinnamon head setting off a body marked in black and business gray, adult male Redheads light up the open water of lakes and coastlines.
80% of the world's Redhead population winters in the Laguna Madre in eastern Mexico, moving freely between the American and Mexican sides.
Female Red-head
Redheads are so exceptionally gregarious they're referred to as "rafting ducks." Sometimes they alight at hunting decoys before the hunters have finished setting them up.
Many ducks lay some of their eggs in other birds' nests (a strategy called "brood parasitism"), but female Redheads are perhaps tops in this department including many other duck species and even the nests of Northern Harriers.
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