Apricot wood duck is a color mutation as well as the white wood duck.Male Apricot wood ducks have a crested head that can range in color from a very light Apricot to a very dark Apricot with a white stripe leading from the eye to the end of the crest and another, narrower white stripe from the base of the bill to the tip of the crest. The throat is Apricot and the chest is Apricot as well , gradually grading into a Apricot- white belly. The bill is brightly patterned black, white, and red. The legs and feet are dull straw-yellow, and the iris is red. The male call is a thin, high, rising "jeeeeee." Female wood ducks have a Apricot head and neck with a light Apricot crest. A white teardrop shaped patch surrounds the brownish-black eye. The throat is white and the breast is Apricot stippled with white fading into the Apricot - white belly. The back is darker Apricot. The bill is blue-gray and the legs and feet are dull grayish-yellow.
