Eligible Species for the Junior Duck Stamp Competition
Your entry should feature a live portrayal featuring at least one of the species below. Mute swans, loons, grebes, coots and other such waterbirds are not permitted species. For the contest, you may do ones not found in Maine
Species found in Maine
● Snow Goose, including blue phase (Anser caerulescens) ● Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons) ● Brant (Branta bernicla) ● Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) ● Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) ● Blue-winged Teal (Spatula discors) ● Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata) ● Gadwall (Mareca strepera) ● American Wigeon (Mareca americana) ● Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) ● American Black Duck (Anas rubripes) ● Northern Pintail (Anas acuta) ● Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) ● Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) ● Greater Scaup (Aytha marila) ● Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) ● King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) ● Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) ● Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) Threatened Species ME ● Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) ● White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca) ● Black Scoter (Melanitta americana) ● Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) ● Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) ● Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula) ● Barrow's Goldeneye (Bucephala islandica) Threatened Species ME ● Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) ● Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) ● Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) ● Ruddy Duck (Oxyura jamaicensis)
Species not found in Maine (usually) but still eligible
● Black-bellied Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna autumnalis) ● Ross's Goose (Anser rossii) ● Cackling Goose (Branta hutchinsii) ● Fulvous Whistling-Duck (Dendrocygna bicolor) ● Emperor Goose (Anser canagicus) ● Masked Duck (Oxyura dominica) ● Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) ● Spectacled Eider (Somateria fischeri) ● Mottled Duck (Anas fulvigula) ● White-cheeked Pintail (Anas bahamensis) ● Laysan Duck (Anas laysanensis) ● Hawaiian Duck or Koloa (Anas wyvilliana) ● Hawaiian Goose or Nene (Branta sandvicensis) ● Trumpeter Swan (Cygnus buccinator) ● Tundra Swan (Cygnus columbianus) ● Cinnamon Teal (Spatula cyanoptera) ● Canvasback (Aythya valisineria) ● Redhead (Aythya americana)