Sitka/Wood Duck
Sitka Summary: First documentation in the area was a single molting female shot by a hunter in Fish Bay late September 2012. Along the road system a bird was documented on Swan Lake in mid-October 2013, a male at Indian River winter 2014-2015, and another male present at Swan Lake and Totem Park starting in Jan 2016, present through Summer 2017. Female on Swan Lake and Totem Park winters 2020-2021 and 2021-2022. Male and female plus an immature bird present on Swan Lake October 2022-??.
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Sitka Wood Duck
There have been other reports of this species, though in at least one year it was due to confusion with immature Mandarin Ducks that had been released. Apart from that, two were reported from the flume at Sheldon Jackson some time in 2011.
