Juvenile female wood duck (Aix sponsa). California Waterfowl Association, a USFWS partner, held a youth camp this past weekend. The campers learned how to band waterfowl and released them out into the wild. Taken at Grizzly Ranch near Suisun, California. This female juvenile wood duck (Aix sponsa) is showing off her newly banded tarsus.

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