The American Wigeon belongs to the surface feeding or puddle duck group. These are relatively light bodied ducks when ...

There are two basic duck classifications -- puddle ducks and diving ducks. While puddle ducks leap from the water, diving ducks use their feet, skittering along to gain flight speed. Another ...

Hunters have two different types of ducks to hunt - diving ducks and puddle ducks. I suppose that lumps the divers, including scaup, redheads and canvasbacks, in with the scoters and eiders that make ...