Which are these ducks:

Canvasback
Bufflehead
Wood Duck

all of them are ducks.

diver
diver
puddler

Thanks!

So besides the wood duck, all the really pretty ducks are divers.

I wouldnt go that far a full plumage Shoveler is a pretty awesome colored bird, so is a widgeon!!

I would add the fully plumed drakes of both bluewing and cinnamon teal!

Yeah youre right. I didn't think about all those.

Yeah IMO pintails are the best looking and most special when you get one. Even guys like JJ only bag a handful a year. After that I think Cans are pretty cool as are woodducks.

I'd love a fully plummed BWT or spoonie drake to put on the wall.

Cans are over rated...IMO

I would like a pintail and a real nice widg for the wall

What I want on my wall.....besides my mallard

Pintail
Bufflehead
Redhead
Canvasback
blue, green, and cinnamon teal
wood duck

after that......don't care...

no love for the spoonie? thats messed up

From a biology perspective canvasbacks and buffledhead are both classified as diving ducks in the tribe Aythini, all puddle ducks are in the tribe Anatini, and the wood duck is not in either of these tribes but is in the "perching duck" tribe known as Cairinini, so the wood duck is not a puddler its a percher, feel free to hate me for bringing science into this

Come out here to the panhandle for pintails. On several occasions this year all I could do is sit and watch as flock after flock of pintails decoyed. I know they're not doing well, but they must concentrate en masse out here. With that said, they are still among the most beautiful of ducks and this year was my first year to get drakes. Tops on my list, though not found around here, are the harlequin duck and long-tailed duck.

+ 1 on the Harlequin, I would love to get a few of those suckers for the wall!!!

I have to agree with you on the mallards, I have no desire where they are concerned

I should have a nice surprise for everyone in about a year

I hope for your sake you mean a year and not 9 months.

My wish list isn't made up of ducks that everyone else thinks are cool. The ducks on my list are birds that I think are nice looking and cool. I have a woody and mallard at the taxi right now. Why? Because I think they are beautiful birds and I want one on the wall. I also have a pintail at the taxi. Why? Because it was the first bird my dog ever retrieved while hunting. I would take a fully plumed spoonie over a cinnamon teal or canvasback. I know cinnamons and canvasbacks are rare but I don't care how rare it is; if it's ugly I don't want it hanging on my wall. That's just me though.

I really think all the ducks are pretty in there own way and yeah if someone likes one over the other and wants it on his wall...it's his wall and his opinion that matters. I love it when I see the more common and less high profile ducks like GWT. To me a GWT drake is one of the coolest looking ducks. Hell even ringers are neat looking...I love the bills on them.

A coot would be quite the conversation starter.

I think all drakes in full color are pretty ducks, I can't think of one that's not.

Are the mergansser's in the same family of the ducks?

No

I have a woody, cinnamon, and bufflehead on the wall(well the woody is on a shelf, and the buffie is hanging from the cieling). I have a widg and a mallard at the taxi right now. A pintail is the highest on my list. I have shot plenty of them, but I want one with a real trophy sprig so that might be a while. Unless I get that trophy a greenwing is probably next, and I would like to go to the coast and get a full plummed bluewing too. Eventually I would like to have at least one of all the more common species including divers, and hopefully some of the more exotic ones(to us in TX) like harlequins and eiders. I plan on getting a mount done each year till that happens. I missed last year though, so that's why I did 2 this year. I'm also trying to take them all from different lakes or properties.