Do ducks fly south before a Canadian winter?
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for your kind information DUCKS DO NOT FLY !!  only WILD DUCKS FLY .
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Canadian Geese are the carriers of ultimate wisdom...so, naturally, they should be in charge.
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Yes, Birds can cover MANY miles each and every day. When they stop to feed, drink or bathe they pad around in water. Most often nothing sticks to the birds, but there are the times that eggs and materials stick on their feet and legs. This most often happens with ducks and their webbed feet.
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Depends on what is best for you? if you love winter : winnipeg. if you love sea british columbia and maritimes. south ontario which has niagara falls , also enjoys good climate and weather
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I think crafty mum has it about right. Ducks normally walk in a line when traveling as a family group. Papa duck, mama duck, baby ducks all in a row.
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5 year round Washington residents: Spotted Owl, Winter Wren, Varied Thrush, Spotted Towhee, Chestnut-backed Chickadee\n\n5 Migrants that occur there part of the year: Brant, Western Tanager, Violet-green Swallow, Black-throated Gray Warbler, Black Turnstone  \n\nOr even better, go to www.ebird.org, and select your area and it will give you a list of what birds are there when.
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Not permanantly, but when on hunting and fishing trips, some more traditional eskimo's do. And as a Canadian, I can say I live in a two story brick home, and it isn't cold year round.
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Yeah, all ducks have webbed feet, although in some species the webbing isn't as complete and can be harder to see.\n\nBut the birds you saw are almost certainly coots. Your description fits them to a 'T' in both size, colouration and behaviour. Coots are vicious greedy little buggers.\n\nHave a look at the links below to see if they look familiar
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Get to Mexico by Sea first and then fly to Canada
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Geese, loons, elk, moose, caribu, wolves, wood buffalo, arctic foxes... cold weather animals.  Keep in mind you just asked about half a continent.
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I am not certain what you mean, but if you are asking about their breeding and nesting details, Here goes:\n\nWhoopers usually build a nest in marshes or shallow ponds, in about 25 cm of water (the flightless chicks can swim to escape predators) and most often in relatively dense stands of bulrush. \n\nA pair usually has two eggs. Both eggs generally hatch, but if both eggs are left in the nest, usually only one chick survives. The reason for this may be related to a food shortage, particularly when wet areas begin to dry out and terrestrial predators, such as the gray wolf, are able to penetrate the cranes' nesting marshes.\n\nThe incubation period is 29� 30 days, and both parents share the task of incubating the eggs in the nest. Few eggs are lost to predators thanks, in part, to the vigil of the adult birds. The reddish orange young hatch during the last week in May or the first week in June. From then on, the parents are kept busy feeding their chicks. During the summer, the cranes rarely fly. Some birds may be incapable of flight during short periods due to the molt of major wing feathers.\n\nFamily groups frequent the shallows of small ponds and marshes, where the adults perhaps find larval forms of insects such as dragonflies, damselflies, and mayflies, and also snails, small clams, water beetles, leeches, frogs, and small fish to feed their young. When the parent birds kill larger prey, such as snakes, mice, small birds, ducklings, and even birds up to the size of half-grown bitterns, they share the spoils of these hunts with their young.\n\nBy the end of September or early October the young birds are ready to try their wings on the 4000 km migration to the Texas winter range. On the way south, the birds spend one to five weeks feeding in their staging (stopover) areas in Saskatchewan. In these areas, undisturbed whoopers may spend the entire one- to five-week staging period on the same quarter or half-section of land. Here the birds fatten up on waste barley and wheat in stubble fields, and roost during the night in nearby wetlands.
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The answer depends on the species of butterfly. Each species is adapted to a habitat and their life cycle places the proper life stage at the proper time of year. So each species has evolved flight muscles that are most efficient at a particular temperature range. Early and late season butterflies are better adapted for flying in cool weather than mid-summer species.\n\nThere are several moth species (not butterflies) that live and fly in mid-winter. When temperatures are too cold to fly, they use shivering to heat their muscles up to flight temperature.
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Depends. Downpours and flooding will make even a water loving duck look for somewhere to get a break from the deluge.\n\nI own a couple of ducks, and if it's raining hard, they hunker down or even hide under their shed. A light drizzle they like especially since it makes the dirt yummy and they look for worms.\n\nDucks have oily feathers (special duck oil) that causes water to roll off their backs so they don't get wet and cold.  They also have a lot of body fat which keeps them warm, so wet doesn't bother them.
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The temperature in Southern Ontario and the prairies can reach to the upper 30's Celcius, and since Canadian territory goes to the north pole, temperatures can fall into the -60 range.
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Yes they do. Look out below.\n\n*edit* I grew up in Wyoming along a migration root for Canadian Geese. There were some species that would winter in our lakes as well so we had geese year round.\n\nI can tell you that they poop in flight because through the years many of my friends and myself had our cars dive bombed while driving. A few had the misfortune to get hit themselves.\n\nIt doesn't hurt, goose poopie is soft, like a grey green pudding. It's just embarassing, especially when it's 10 degrees outside and it literally becomes a "steaming pile" on your head.\n\nElaborate enough for ya?
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Yes.\n\nWild turkeys roost in trees at night. They fly to their roosts at about sunset and fly to the ground at first light where they feed until mid-morning. They will often roost again for a short period in mid-morning and feeding will resume in the afternoon. Turkeys can cover several miles during the course of the day while feeding.
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Most of the time it's during the spring, but the reason is solely based on water temperature.  If you have an exceptionally cold early spring, they won't start spawning until late spring.  Once the water temperature gets in the high 50's to low 60's they'll start moving up and shortly thereafter, the spawning period will begin.