Canvasback

How to identify

Field marks

1. Head wedge-shaped, neck long
2. Adult male has a chestnut head and neck, and black breast
3. Adult male has a gray back and black bill
4. Adult female has a pale brown head and neck, and gray-brown flanks and back

Male, female and young

Among adults, male has a chestnut head and neck, and black breast; female has a pale brown head and neck, shading into dark brown toward the breast.

Where and when it's recorded

Canvasback has been recorded at 617 of the 8,276 birding hotspots we track, in 11 countries and regions.

Records by month Northern Hemisphere

Where it's recorded most

1. Tommy Thompson ParkCanada6,988 records
2. Riverlands Migratory Bird SanctuaryUnited States4,660 records
3. Reid ParkUnited States4,634 records

Countries and regions with the most records

United StatesCanadaMexicoUnited KingdomBermudaNetherlandsGuatemalaSouth Korea

eBird records via GBIF up to 2024-12-31. A record means someone listed it; more records partly mean more birders, not more birds.

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