Barrow’s goldeneye and harlequin duck. Common and king eiders are infrequent visitors. “Sea ducks are popular game birds in North America, yet they are poorly monitored and their population ...

Just upstream, preening on a rock, was a female harlequin duck with a geolocator on her leg. If Bate could recapture that bird and retrieve the geolocator she and her team had placed the previous year ...

‘It is definitely rare,” said Stanley Greenberg, a member of the Brooklyn Bird Club. “I have only ever seen them on the West Coast.” The downy out-of-towner is a member of the harlequin species of ...

The harlequin duck is a distinctive waterfowl more known to Alaskans and residents of the Pacific Northwest. The duck's historic range often brought wintering birds down as far as the Northern ...

It's essentially a sea duck. The Lab's website,allaboutbirds.org, notes, "a bird of fast-moving water, the Harlequin duck breeds on fast-flowing streams and winters along rocky coastlines in the ...

Not all ducks are cut out for turbulence like the harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus). This small yet adventurous sea bird can be found diving for aquatic invertebrates in rough and fast ...

The first anhinga for the Cape and Islands was photographed at Pogorelc Sanctuary in Barnstable but not subsequently refound. Other birds there included a tricolored heron and a yellow-crowned ...