Ducks
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Lots of species in this photo. Look for Canvasbacks with the rusty red heads, and White-fronted Geese with the white behind the beak. How many other species do you see?

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Drake Wood Duck; central Kansas.

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Wood Ducks. In a park in San Diego.

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Wood Ducks, central Kansas.

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Wood Duck hen, central Kansas

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Common Mergansers, far off.

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Hooded Mergansers

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Hooded Mergansers, distant.

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Bufflehead drake and hen, Central Kansas

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Better shot of the male.

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Goldeneye. Male. He's pretty far off, grey day.

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Goldeneye, male.

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Redhead, male. Starting to molt. Central KS.

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Redhead drake and hen.

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Ring-necked Duck. Note the ring around the beak. It also has a slight ring around the neck, but it's difficult to see.

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Ring-necked Ducks, foreground. Green-winged Teal drake on left, Mallards in the back.

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Scaup sp. Probably a Greater.

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Scaup sp.

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Lesser Scaup

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Cinnamon Teal. Central KS.

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Green-winged Teal. Hard to get good photos of them as they're quite skittish.

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Green-winged Teal, drake.

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Green-winged Teal hen, dead on the water. Louisiana.

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Blue-winged Teal. The drake has the characteristic white crescent behind the beak.

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Blue-winged Teal

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Blue-winted Teal, drake.

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Pintail drakes and hen.

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Pintail drake and hen.

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More pintail drakes and hens.

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American Widgeon drake, strutting his stuff.

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Widgeon drake. You can see why they're called "Baldpates."

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Widgeon drake and hen. Note the blue bills, too.

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This hen Mallard just had to get into the act.

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Gadwall drake and hen.

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Good shot of a drake Gadwall.

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Mallards

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More mallards on the ice.

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Hen Mallard with young.

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Drake Shoveler

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Drake Shoveler and Blue-winged Teal.

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What a large bill you have!

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Ruddy Ducks. All hens.

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More Ruddy Ducks. Drake with cinamon back.

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Better view of drake Ruddy Duck, though distant.

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Maybe they're Redheads.

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Canvasbacks, early morning in a pond in central KS.

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Decoys at Blind 6, Spring Bayou area, La.

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Robo Duck. Does this count as a species?