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	Pochards \| Animal Facts \| Chaffee Zoological Gardens of Fresno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Netta is Greek for "duck," pepo is Latin for "melon" and sakos is Greek for "shield." The rosybill is the duck with the melon-shield, referring to the bulbous swelling at the base of the bill on the male.
		Diving ducks are heavy and tend to have short wings.
		Diving ducks generally go down for half to three-quarters of a minute, but they have been known to stay submerged for two minutes.
	www.chaffeezoo.org /animals/pochards.html (910 words)

	Diving Duck Tactics
		Scaup are one diving duck species that prefers to dine on small crustaceans in nearshore and inshore areas.
		Diving ducks, or divers, derive their name from their primary method of feeding, which is diving below the surface of the water.
		Diving ducks can be hunted in a wide variety of habitats ranging from small marshes to large lakes and saltwater bays.
	www.gameandfishmag.com /ducksgeese/gf_aa126203a (2485 words)

	Ferruginous Duck - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Ferruginous Duck (Aythya nyroca) is a medium-sized diving duck.
		These ducks breed in southern and eastern Europe and southern and western Asia.
		These are gregarious birds, forming large flocks in winter, often mixed with other diving ducks, such as Tufted Ducks and Pochards.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ferruginous_Duck (176 words)

	Chesapeake Bay Journal: Fowl Weather Friends - January/February 2003
		Ducks in the Chesapeake region are divided into dabbling ducks, diving duck and sea ducks.
		The wood duck, which shares many of the characteristics of dabbling ducks, is classified as a âperching duckâ because of its ability to perch in trees.
		A diving duckâs large feet and short legs are near the rear of its body and are used to propel the bird underwater in search of SAV or aquatic invertebrates.
	www.bayjournal.com /article.cfm?article=750 (765 words)

	DNR Releases 2003 Mid-Winter Waterfowl Survey Results
		Diving duck estimates declined from 310,000 in 2002 to 169,900 in 2003.
		The drop in diving duck estimates was attributed to significant decreases in ruddy ducks (42,700 this winter compared to 79,200 in 2002) and scaup (66,600 in 2003 compared to the record 163,400 counted in last winter).
		Other diving duck species’ estimates in 2002 were lower compared to 2002, including redheads (5,100), buffleheads (13,100), ring-necked ducks (300) and American goldeneyes (2,100).
	www.dnr.state.md.us /dnrnews/pressrelease2003/031803.html (550 words)

	USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Research Showcase: Diving Duck Distribution, Abundance, and Food Habits in ...
		The locations of diving ducks in Chesapeake Bay during the winter was determined by aerial surveys conducted by USFWS and state wildlife agencies.
		Surveys are conducted during mid-winter and ducks are identified and population size is estimated.
		Other species of diving ducks, show little changes in food habits and still are feeding on mollusks species that have traditionally formed the bulk of their diets.
	www.pwrc.usgs.gov /resshow/perry/foodhabits.htm (729 words)

	Duck Design
		Ducks come in bold and goofy colors.Their feet are perfect for swimming in water or walking in mud.
		Ducks have an oil gland on their back at the base of the upper tail feathers.
		The legs of diving ducks are far back on their bodies for better diving, but they look unbalanced on land.
	mdc.mo.gov /kids/out-in/2001/02/1.htm (1033 words)

	Dipper Ducks and Diving Ducks
		A diving duck has shorter legs, located farther back on the body, and larger feet distinguished by a big hind toe with a pronounced flap or lobe.
		The ring-necked duck, the scaup, and the lesser scaup or little bluebill, are diving ducks esteemed as game birds but the redhead and the canvasback, being essentially vegetarians, are most highly regarded by epicures.
		The redhead was once the commonest of all diving ducks but unfortunately, due to excessive hunting and drainage of the nesting areas, they and the canvasback have become scarce.
	www.newton.dep.anl.gov /natbltn/600-699/nb692.htm (654 words)

	Red Fox Predation on Breeding Ducks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Seventy-six percent of the dabbling ducks and 40% of the diving ducks were hens.
		The sex composition of dabbling ducks found at dens in North Dakota and South Dakota revealed that although fox predation was hen selective in all species, there were important differences among areas and species (Table 5).
		The effect of nesting chronology on sex compositions of ducks taken by foxes is also evident in comparisons of percentage of hens in early and late season samples of the 5 principal dabbling duck species found at dens in our 3-county intensive study area (Table 6).
	www.npwrc.usgs.gov /resource/othrdata/redfox/sexcomp.htm (835 words)

	Duck Diving
		Surf Patrol is right, duck diving is the bane of most new(ish) surfers and is a...
		Duck Diving is an essential part of being a competent surfer.
		Each scuba diving trip offers something different from the one before, thanks to the diverse marine life living in the oceans of the world.
	www.pleasurediving.co.uk /duck-diving.html (703 words)

	Surfing Lesson Three - Duck Diving For Beginners
		duck diving is the way that a surfer dives under an oncoming wave as he / she is paddling out to the line up.
		Ducking under the wave ensures that all the progress made by paddling out is not lost by being washed backwards by the wave.
		If you have duck dived correctly you should be in a position to immediately start paddling again.
	www.surfing-waves.com /surfing_lesson_three.htm (607 words)

	Harvesting the River: Harvesting: Waterfowl: Diving Ducks -- Illinois State Museum
		Diving ducks are found in the larger, deeper lakes and rivers, where they can dive deeply for food and to escape danger, and where they have running room to launch their flight.
		Ring-necked, lesser scaups, canvasback, and redhead ducks dove to the bottom of lakes to gather small snails and fingernail clams, and also freshwater plants and their seeds.
		During the past three decades, food supplies for diving ducks have nearly disappeared, and redhead ducks have largely abandoned backwater lakes along the Illinois.
	www.museum.state.il.us /RiverWeb/harvesting/harvest/waterfowl/species/diving_ducks.html?Ice=&Click_to_Open_Menu=& (262 words)

	Diving Ducks (Buffleheads): WhoZoo
		They like to dive in groups and then dive under and remain their for quite a while.
		Diving ducks under water and emerging to the surface.
		One duck I noticed serves as a spotter to the other diving ducks and keeps watch over the usual 3-4 that dive.
	www.whozoo.org /Intro2001/brencloud/BLC_DivingDuck3.htm (279 words)

	Penobscot Bay Outfitters, Maine Seaduck Guide - Todd Jackson
		With a limit of seven ducks per day, a selective drake shooting is practiced to ensure population growth.
		After the morning sea duck hunt we often go right to Puddle Duck hunting if the hunters would like to hunt for Black Ducks, Goldeneyes, or some of the other diving ducks Maine has to offer.
		Puddle duck hunting is usually a 50 to 60 day split season with a four or five bird limit.
	www.seaduck.net (503 words)

	Ducks of the World
		Diving duck; males have redish brown head, light gray sides; female is light brown with a mottled appearance
		Diving duck; males have red head, light gray sides, neck and breast are fl, bill is bright red; female has dark brown head and nape with whitish cheeks and foreneck
		Diving duck; males have fl head, light gray sides, white stripes on beak; female is chocolate brown, white cheeks and base of bill
	www.utm.edu /departments/ed/cece/ducks.shtml (788 words)

	Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis) - Chesapeake Bay Program
		These small (usually only 11 to 14 inches long), appealing diving ducks are excellent swimmers, and sometimes use their sharply angled, long tails as rudders when forced, for protection, to dive and swim.
		The monogamous ruddy duck prefers nests surrounded by dense vegetation near freshwater marshes and ponds.
		The ruddy duck is a shallow diver and feeds by straining bottom mud or surface water.
	www.chesapeakebay.net /info/ruddy.cfm (566 words)

	Como Zoo - Common Eider Duck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Eider Duck is a specialized diving duck found in the Arctic and subarctic.
		In Norway, Iceland and Russia, eider ducks are farmed for their incredibly soft down.
		Farmers collect the first lining of down from eider nests, after which the female ducks reline their nests before laying their eggs.
	www.comozooconservatory.org /zoo/eiderduck.html (409 words)

	Diving Ducks
		Diving ducks are considered good indicators of the Chesapeake's water quality because they not only use surface habitat, but dive to feed on bottom dwelling plants or animals.
		Chesapeake Bay diving duck species include canvasbacks, redheads, scaup, ring-necked ducks, common goldeneye, bufflehead and ruddy ducks.
		It is not known why the redheads did not also switch their diet to include clams.Other diving ducks have always depended on clams and other benthic invertebrates for food.
	www.chesapeakebay.net /status/waterfowl-diving.cfm?SUBJECTAREA=indicators (319 words)

	Ducks at a Distance: A Waterfowl Identification Guide (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Diving ducks frequent the larger, deeper lakes and rivers, and coastal bays and inlets.
		Since many of them have short tails, their huge, paddle feet may be used as rudders in flight, and are often visible on flying birds.
		Since their wings are smaller in proportion to the size and weight of their bodies, they have a more rapid wingbeat than puddle ducks.
	www.remington.com /magazine/ducks/diving.htm (168 words)

	Diving duck predation at mussel farms - Year 2 PhD report
		Although it is clear that many Scottish mussel farmers do have a problem with loss of stock to diving ducks, the extent of the problem has never been accurately established.
		Any method to be developed to reduce the amount of damage caused by diving ducks must be based on a solid understanding of the nature of the problem specific to that site.
		Numbers of feeding eiders were reduced by 78.5%, from an average of 79.5 duck hours before the laser was used to 17.1 after use of the laser (fig.
	www.gla.ac.uk /ibls/DEEB/rwf/eider/2yrrep.htm (7098 words)

	Ring-necked Duck Female (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		These ducks are found on wooded lakes, ponds, and rivers and seldom seen on salt water except in the southern states.
		Ring-necked Duck (Female): Eight to 12 buff or olive eggs are laid in a down-lined cup concealed in vegetation near the edge of a pond.
		Ring-necked Duck (Female): Similar to this bird is the female Greater Scaup and Lesser Scaup, which both have a white ring around the bill.
	www.percevia.com /explorer/db/birds_of_north_america_western/obj/110/target.aspx (758 words)

	Wetlands - Volume 20, Number 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The purpose of this study was to evaluate effects of survey timing on diving duck and duck brood abundance indices in eastern South Dakota.
		Findings indicate that timing of aerial breeding surveys occurred too early in eastern South Dakota to accurately reflect diving duck population status because birds had not yet settled into breeding habitats and aerial production surveys did not coincide with peak duck brood abundance.
		Diving duck abundance from aerial surveys conducted during 10-17 May were higher than indices from ground surveys conducted 2 weeks later because lesser scaup (Aythya affinis), ring-necked duck (Aythya collaris), and bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) were still migrating through eastern South Dakota.
	www.sws.org /wetlands/abstracts/volume20n1/NAUGLE.html (304 words)

	University Of Alaska, Stories
		You can readily spot them among other ducks, because their long and barreled shape body causes them to sit low in the water.
		The shape of their body helps them move swiftly and almost effortlessly through the water when they are diving for their food source.
		Sea Ducks are important indicators of the quality of freshwater and marine ecosystems of the Northern Biomes.
	www.alaska.edu /opa/eInfo/index.xml?StoryID=136 (651 words)

	duck diving
		You can duck dive them, but it is all about practice and timing.
		You will feel when you have done a good duck dive as you will go under the wave smoothly and not feel like you are going through the shaker.
		Surf Patrol is right, duck diving is the bane of most new(ish) surfers and is a pain to get right.
	www.surfing-waves.com /forum/viewtopic.php?p=2310 (1874 words)

	Birds of Iceland: Aythya marila, Scaup (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		is a fairly common breeding diving duck on Iceland.
		The males can best be told by the color of the backs: greyish on the scaup and full fl on the tufted duck.
		The female tufted duck sometimes has this too, but only as a thin margin.
	www.iceland-nh.net /birds/data/Aythya-marila/aythya_marila.html (170 words)

	Maine Hunting and Fishing - Penobscot Bay Outfitters
		Come hunt Maine for sea ducks, white-tailed deer,fl bear or fish the beautiful coast of Maine for striped bass.
		With a limit of seven birds per day a selective drake shooting is practiced to ensure population growth.
		The duck hunting style at Penobscot Bay Outfitters is set up with the trophy hunter in mind.
	www.seaduck.net /outfitters.html (451 words)

	Oakland Zoo: Redhead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Nest is a down-lined hollow in reeds or grass in marshes where vegetation is dense and deep water close by.
		Legs are set far back and wide apart which facilitates diving but makes walking awkward.
		This duck is easily confused with the canvasback which has the same markings but a much paler back and sides and a longer, slimmer fl bill.
	www.oaklandzoo.org /atoz/azreduck.html (348 words)

	NYSOA - Waterfowl Count 2001
		In general, counts of geese were down from a year ago, counts of most dabbling ducks were similar between years, and counts of most diving duck species increased dramatically (Table 2).
		The unusually high counts of diving ducks in New York were not observed throughout the Atlantic Flyway, suggesting that high FWC counts were due in part to short-term distributional shifts rather than population increases.
		Highlights of regional reports included unprecedented numbers of Canvasback, Greater Scaup, Long-tailed Duck and Red-breasted Mergansers on the Niagara River and Lake Erie near Buffalo (Region 1), Barrow's Goldeneye on the Oneida River (Region 5) and on Long Island Sound near Oak Neck (Region 10), and two Harlequin Ducks near Staten Island (Region 10).
	www.nybirds.org /Articles/WFC2001.htm (834 words)

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		Los Roques offers some of the best scuba diving in the world, offering a great range of quality dive sites.
	www.webshots.com /search?tab=photos&new=1&source=DownloadDotComHomePop&words=Diving (174 words)

	Forums - ugh...duck diving! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		But I tried to duck dive and it didnt work out very well for me. Its hard for me to get out in the water when I surf cause it was just last summer my cousin got me actually in the water with big waves...haha.
		I heard duck diving is really hard with bic or nsp boards because they're so boyant.
		I found a souloution for it, this is a move called an eskimo roll were u roll your board over like an upside down canoe, with u underneath it.And then u should be able to get out there no probs.
	www.boardshop.co.uk /forum/thread.jsp?forum=9&thread=3601 (782 words)

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