Their diet can vary by species, with some like the mergansers specializing in fish and others like the wood duck and other perching ducks ingesting more nuts; by season, with more insects being ...

"The wood, or Carolina duck, is a species of perching duck found in North America ... They are one of the few duck species equipped with strong claws that can grip bark and perch on branches.

They may have a ho-hum name, but the wood duck can easily be described as the dandy of the duck world. Nature went all out when it created this multicolored perching duck, complete with bright red ...

Black-bellied whistling ducks’ scientific name means “tree swan,” appropriate for this colorful, long-legged tropical waterfowl with a penchant for perching and whose range and population ...