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We found 2 possible birds with Lesser Scaup: Usually nine to twelve dark olive-buff eggs are laid in a down-lined cup of grass hidden in vegetation, often located some distance from the edge of the water. Incubation ranges from 21 to 28 days and is carried out by the female. colored crowns, Red iris colored eyes, and Dagger bills in West Virginia:



Black-crowned Night-Heron: Medium-sized, stocky heron with short neck and legs, black upperparts, gray wings, and white to pale gray underparts. Stout black bill, red eyes, and yellow legs. Feeds on small invertebrates, crustaceans, vertebrates, mammals, eggs and young of other birds, and plants.
Tricolored Heron: Medium heron, blue-gray upperparts, head, neck, wings, paler rump, white stripe on foreneck, white belly. Also has white plumes on back of head and rust-brown plumes on lower neck, back during the breeding season. Bill and legs are olive-brown. Direct flight on steady wing beats.
 
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