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American Black Duck (Anas rubripes)
If you draw a line from north to south from the top of North America to the bottom, most of the suitable wetland habitat on the east side of that line may be occupied by American Black Ducks, either as a breeding species, especially in the northern half, or as a migrant or a wintering bird, with a wide overlap zone where it both breeds and winters. I mostly think of it as a species that nests in the boreal black spruce forests of northern Ontario, Quebec and Newfoundland and Labrador. To the west of that imaginary line would be most of the historical native range of the extremely closely related Mallard (A. platyrhynchos), a species that tended to nest in marshes and sloughs in the prairie regions while the American Black Duck nested in forest ponds. The Mallard is also found across Eurasia, while the American Black Duck is strictly North American. But in modern times Mallards have moved east in North America and now occupy much of...