This little plush Canvasback is
made by Wild Republic and is part of their Audubon Bird series.
The Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) is a large 15-inch duck with
a 34-inch wingspan. 
The head and neck
are copper colored, with a black breast and tail, pale gray back
and sides and white belly. The wedge-shaped head is distinctive.
The eyes are red and the bill is black. The female is gray with
a brown chest and copper colored head and neck.
This duck is a diver. It feeds on green
plant material, including wild celery, seeds and some water-borne
invertebrates. It frequents prairie marshes and wetlands in summer
and salt bays in winter.
The female Canvasback builds the nest,
a bulky basketlike affair, in a marsh among dense vegetation.
She lines it with down. She lays 7 to 12 olive-gray eggs and
only she incubates them. They hatch in about 25 days and fledge
in about 2 months. There is only one brood per year.
Redheads are similar but have yellow eyes,
blue bill with a black tip, grayer back and the head profile
is different. The Canvasback's call is short low croaks. The
female quacks.
The range includes Alaska, western Canada
and the northwest United States. They winter in Mexico and the
Atlantic and Gulf coasts. Canvasbacks migrate in the fall and
early spring. They fly high and fast and often in a V-formation.
