{"id":154177,"date":"2015-03-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=326cf86fa6d194d7ae07df7ea14abdba"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:37","slug":"ruddy-ducks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/ruddy-ducks\/","title":{"rendered":"Ruddy Ducks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Do you know what time ducks wake up? At the quack of dawn!<\/p>\n

Do you know how to get down off a horse? You don’t get down off a horse, you get down off a duck!<\/p>\n

A man and a duck are walking outside together. Suddenly the man sees a low flying plane and yells, “DUCK!” The duck looks back at him, annoyed, and yells, “MAN!”<\/p>\n

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The ruddy duck, Oxyura jamaicensus, is one cute little duck you might see on the Atlantic coast in winter. They mainly breed in prairie potholes out west; and when the males acquire their cinnamon colored breeding plumage, their common name makes more sense. I took these pictures of ruddy ducks in non-breeding plumage last fall at theEdwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in New Jersey.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Click to enlarge.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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