At Olympia’s Capitol Lake on 13 October 2019, I photographed a pair of American Wigeon. Females differ from males by their white-edged wing coverts. This wigeon breeds across Canada and the northern Great Plains. They are the northernmost breeding dabbling duck. They winter along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts and across the southern United States south through Mexico and Central America. Wigeon are mainly vegetarians in the winter.
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