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 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 ...

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 ...