Gadwall
Mareca strepera
CLASS Aves | ORDER Anseriformes | FAMILY AnatidaeRANGE North America
HABITAT Breeds mainly in the Great Plains and Canadian prairies; on migration and in winter, found in fresh and salt water marshes and well-vegetated reservoirs, beaver ponds, farm ponds, and streams
DIET Aquatic vegetation such as algae, grasses, rushes, sedges, pondweed, widgeon grass, and water milfoil; also invertebrates