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Kingdom: Animalia American Wigeon |
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| Description
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Migration:
American wigeons migrate along all of the major flyways of North America and are one of the earliest to arrive at their wintering grounds (Waterfowl Gallery, 2002). Wigeons of the Central Flyway summer in the Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and parts of Northwest Manitoba. They winter in New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana and Mexico along the eastern Gulf coast (Mowbray 1999). Birds of the Pacific Flyway summer in western Canada and Alaska and winter in Puget Sound and California (Waterfowl Gallery 2002). The Mississippi Flyway is used by the birds that summer in southern Saskatchewan and Manitoba and winter in Mississippi, Arkansas, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama and Louisiana. The rest of the wigeon population uses the Atlantic Flyway. When these birds are heading to their wintering grounds in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia and Florida they are coming from the Mississippi Flyway or from summer grounds on Hudson Bay, James Bay or the Maritime Provinces (Mowbray 1999).
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