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Ducks???? MI USA (1 Viewer)

Look like laysan teal -- which would be escapes. There is a mallard/blackduck/mottled type on the far right as well.

Could be wood ducks but hard to tell. The chubby posture looks better for wood duck vs Anas but head looks better for latter. In this quantity wood duck be more likely, unless a recent zoo lost its whole collection. Most escapes are found in singles.

Either way has to be one of those two, with wood duck being most likely I'd think.
 
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Laysan Ducks are endangered enough that I'd hope they don't allow them to just escape in flocks! I agree they look like Wood Ducks (mostly females, the right-most bird being an eclipse male).

Looking closely, the 2nd from the left looks like it could be a female/immature Hooded Merganser, with that blockier all dark head.
 
I saw 3 laysan teal together in the middle of the UK once so it isn't impossible! Ridiculously tame so I put them down as escapes.

I always thought wood duck was solitary rather than social -- not that I've seen one.
 
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From late summer to spring, just about all ducks are pretty social. They go wherever the food and good cover from predators is. It's not usual to see much larger flocks of Wood Ducks than this, in good habitat.
 
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