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The American Wood duck was seen by myself, my grandchildren & several twitchers at Eyeworth Pond in the New Forest on the afternoon of Monday 15th March 2010.

Mandarin ducks belong to the genus Aix, alongside the American wood duck. They're both hole-nesting ducks with brightly colored males. But perhaps most surprisingly for ducks, they have claws.

The aptly named wood duck is one of a half-dozen species of North American fowl that utilize cavities for nesting. In Ohio, the common and hooded mergansers are the only other cavity-nesting ducks.

The wood duck is one of seven species of North American ducks that regularly nest in natural cavities. The others are the hooded and common mergansers, common and Barrow’s goldeneyes, bufflehead ...

Wood ducks are one of a relatively few North American waterfowl species that utilize hollow areas to lay and hatch eggs. The human-made nest boxes are placed on poles and situated in or along water.