At 09:22 AM 9/1/1998 EDT, you wrote:
>Good morning, Tweeters--
>
>That's the whole question: Can ducks distinguish one color from another, or
>are they color blind?
>
Alma,

Don't know if studies have been done (I'm sure they have) with regard to
this question but I suspect the answer is yes, they do see in color. Most
birds do. The fact that the males are so highly colored (Mallards, Wood
Ducks, etc) would indicate this to be the case.

Peggi
Ben & Peggi Rodgers
Pacific Grove, CA (right next to Monterey)
USA
woodduck at mbay.net or peggi.rodgers at noaa.gov
http://www.mbay.net/~woodduck/



"A bird does not sing because it has an answer,
It sings because it has a song"