Australian wood duck /PAIR
Eggs/live birds are ship USPS or locally pickup or arrange for ground delivery. Live birds Shipping fee is charged at a discounted rate -$100 for up to 2 birds Fertile eggs shipping fee -$21 We ship only in USPS approved shipping containers. We ship through USPS priority express mail. 1-2days estimated arrival time. Live guarantee on all shipment. We ship birds out weekly Mondays- Wednesdays. No shipping on public holidays. Tracking # will be email after the birds have been sent. Usually from 5-6pm the day of shipment
Palmfarmsteads
Males: Have a crested head with a white stripe from the eye to the crest and another from the bill to the crest tip, an apricot throat and chest, and an apricot-white belly. Their bill is brightly patterned black, white, and red, and their legs and feet are dull straw-yellow.
- Females: Have an apricot head and neck with a light apricot crest, a white teardrop-shaped patch around the eye, a white throat, and an apricot breast with white stippling that fades into an apricot-white belly. Their bill is blue-gray, and their legs and feet are dull grayish-yellow.
- Eclipse Plumage: Like other wood ducks, male apricot wood ducks lose their colorful breeding plumage in late summer, transitioning to a more subdued gray or grayish-brown appearance with white facial markings and some blue feathers on their wings, a state known as eclipse plumage.
- Unique Shape: Wood ducks, including apricot varieties, have a unique silhouette with a boxy, crested head, a thin neck, and a long, broad tail.
- Perching Ducks: Unlike most ducks, wood ducks have strong claws that allow them to perch on branches and live partly in trees.
- Cavity Nesters: They nest in holes in trees or in nest boxes placed around lake margins.
- Diet: They eat a varied diet of seeds, aquatic plants, nuts, fruits, shrubs, aquatic and land insects, and even the odd frog.
- Social Behavior: Wood ducks are social and often gather in flocks in the evening, and they migrate in small flocks or pairs.
- Calls: Males have a thin, high, rising "jeeeeee" call, while females utter a drawn-out, rising squeal, "oo-eek" when flushed, and a sharp "cr-r-ek, cr-e-ek" for an alarm call.
Phone: (970)602-7110
Email: palmfarmsteads@gmail.com
www.palmfarmsteads.com
40510 J Rd Mancos, Colorado(CO), 81328 