WILDLIFE DISTRIBUTION AND OCCURRENCE
WILDLIFE SPECIES: Aix sponsa | Wood Duck 



GENERAL DISTRIBUTION : 
The wood duck's breeding range includes most of the states and the
southern portions of the provinces of North America.  Populations are
scarce in the western interior states, especially Utah, Arizona, and New
Mexico [5].  Breeding densities are highest in the Mississippi River
valleys [2,5].  In winter, wood ducks are found on the West Coast from
southern British Columbia to southern California, and on the eastern
coasts from southern New Jersey to southern Florida and west to
central Texas.  Winter densities are high in California's Central Valley
and the southern states of the Mississippi and Atlantic flyways [5].

The Atlantic population is distributed throughout the Atlantic Flyway
states and in southeastern Canada.  The Interior population is found on
the Mississippi Flyway, parts of Ontario, and the eastern tier of states
in the Central Flyway.  The Pacific population is distributed from
British Columbia south to California and east to western Montana [5].


ECOSYSTEMS : 
FRES10 White-red-jack pine
FRES11 Spruce-fir
FRES12 Longleaf-slash pine
FRES13 Loblolly-shortleaf pine
FRES14 Oak-pine
FRES15 Oak-hickory
FRES16 Oak-gum-cypress
FRES17 Elm-ash-cottonwood
FRES18 Maple-beech-birch
FRES19 Aspen-birch
FRES20 Douglas-fir
FRES21 Ponderosa pine
FRES22 Western white pine
FRES25 Larch
FRES26 Lodgepole pine
FRES27 Redwood
FRES28 Western hardwoods


STATES : 


    
AL
	
AZ
    
AR
    
CA
    
CO
    
CT
    
DE
    
GA


    
ID
    
IL
    
IN
    
IA
    
KS
    
KY
    
LA
    
ME
    
MD
    
MA


    
MI
    
MN
    
MS
    
MO
    
MT
    
NE
    
NV
    
NJ
    
NM


    
NY
    
NC
    
ND
    
OH
    
OK
    
OR
    
PA
    
RI
    
SC
    
SD


    
TN
    
TX
    
UT
    
VT
    
VA
    
WA
    
WV
    
WI
    
WY






    
AB
    
BC
    
MB
    
NB
    
NS
    
ON
    
PE
    
PQ


    
SK
    
YT
    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    







    
MEXICO
    




BLM PHYSIOGRAPHIC REGIONS : 
    1  Northern Pacific Border
    2  Cascade Mountains
    3  Southern Pacific Border
    4  Sierra Mountains
    5  Columbia Plateau
    8  Northern Rocky Mountains
    9  Middle Rocky Mountains
   14  Great Plains
   16  Upper Missouri Basin and Broken Lands


KUCHLER PLANT ASSOCIATIONS : 
   K005  Mixed conifer forest
   K006  Redwood forest
   K008  Lodgepole pine - subalpine forest
   K011 Western ponderosa forest
   K012 Douglas-fir forest
   K013  Cedar - hemlock - pine forest
   K014  Grand fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K015  Western spruce - fir forest
   K018  Pine - Douglas-fir forest
   K020  Spruce - fir - Douglas-fir forest
   K091  Cypress savanna
   K092  Everglades
   K093  Great Lakes spruce - fir forest
   K095  Great Lakes pine forest
   K097  Southeastern spruce - fir forest
   K098  Northern floodplain forest
   K099  Maple - basswood forest
   K100  Oak - hickory forest
   K101  Elm - ash forest
   K102  Beech - maple forest
   K103  Mixed mesophytic forest
   K104  Appalachian oak forest
   K106  Northern hardwoods
   K107  Northern hardwoods - fir forest
   K108  Northern hardwoods - spruce forest
   K110  Northeastern oak - pine forest
   K111  Oak - hickory - pine forest
   K112  Southern mixed forest
   K113  Southern floodplain forest


SAF COVER TYPES : 
     1  Jack pine
    14  Northern pin oak
    15  Red pine
    16  Aspen
    21  Eastern white pine
    25  Sugar maple - beech - yellow birch
    26  Sugar maple - basswood
    27  Sugar maple
    28  Black cherry - maple
    39  Black ash - American elm - red maple
    40  Post oak - blackjack oak
    42  Bur oak
    52  White oak - black oak - northern red oak
    53  White oak
    55  Northern red oak
    59  Yellow-poplar - white oak - northern red oak
    60  Beech - sugar maple
    61  River birch - sycamore
    62  Silver maple - American elm
    63  Cottonwood
    64  Sassafras - persimmon
    65  Pin oak - sweetgum
    70  Longleaf pine
    75  Shortleaf pine
    80  Loblolly pine - shortleaf pine
    81  Loblolly pine
    84  Slash pine
    88  Willow oak - water oak - diamondleaf oak
    91  Swamp chestnut oak - cherrybark oak
    92  Sweetgum - willow oak
    93  Sugarberry - American elm - green ash
    94  Sycamore - sweetgum - American elm
    95  Black willow
    96  Overcup oak - water hickory
   101  Baldcypress
   108  Red maple
   110  Black oak
   111  South Florida slash pine
   210  Interior Douglas-fir
   212  Western larch
   213  Grand fir
   215  Western white pine
   217  Aspen
   218  Lodgepole pine


SRM (RANGELAND) COVER TYPES : 
NO-ENTRY


PLANT COMMUNITIES : 
Wood ducks inhabit mostly forested wetland communities, such as southern
and central floodplain forests, red maple (Acer rubrum) swamps,
temporarily flooded oak (Quercus spp.)-hickory (Carya spp.) forests,
and northern bottomland hardwood sites [13].


REFERENCES : 
NO-ENTRY

Related categories for Wildlife Species: Aix sponsa | Wood Duck