Ruddy Duck
Taken at Baron's Haugh on May 25th 2008 using Nikon D40X with Nikon 300 mm zoom lens.
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Taken at Hogganfield Loch on 6th October 2014 using Nikon D5200 with Sigma 150-500 mm zoom lens		 Fact File

Ruddy Duck.
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Local Names:		 Oxyura jamaicensis.
Anseriformes.
Anatidae.
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Dense marsh vegetation near water.
Built gradually from grass, as the number of eggs increase.
Seeds and roots of aquatic plants, aquatic insects and
crustaceans.
Rust-red body, a blue bill, and a white face with a black cap.
Adult females have a grey-brown body with a greyish face with a darker bill, cap and a cheek stripe.
This duck very rarely, if ever, leaves the water. It's aggressive courting behaviour and willingness to interbreed with the endangered native White-headed Duck, (oxyura leucocephala), of southern Europe has caused some concern. Due to this, there is now a controversial scheme
to extirpate the Ruddy Duck as a British breeding species.
14-15 cms.
Late May until early June.
5 to 15.
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