87 Ruddy Duck

• A group of ducks are called a; Brace / Flush / Raft / Paddling / Team.
• This colorful duck is found in ponds ad marshes. 
• It has a chestnut colored body black neck, chest and head can have white cheeks like this one and a large blunt "beautiful blue" as Eve would say bill.
• During breeding the males will puff themselves up bill to chest tail erect and stiff, quite a show.  After the eggs are hatched they then go off and leave mom to do all the raising.
• They nest in wet boggy ground to avoid predators.  The only way to get to the nest is by air or water.

•  They are a member of the 'stiff tailed Ducks'.