Although this bird is named the ring-neck duck, it is most easily identified by the white ring close to the black tip of its bill. It is a common diving duck and will dive to escape danger.

Ring-necked Ducks are the Red-bellied Woodpeckers of the duck world because their common name is a bit misleading. At first, “ring-neck” seems like a perfectly good descriptive name.

He points out a group of common goldeneyes gliding in the water, a lone mute swan perched on a patch of ice, ring-necked ducks and common mergansers swimming nearby. As he spoke, a bald eagle ...

1.6 pounds for ringnecks), the two ducks also share a common appearance, except that, paradoxically, the ringneck has a prominent ring around its bill (thus earning the name "ringbill'' among some ...

Perky, the ring-neck duck that survived being shot and spending two days in a hunter’s refrigerator, has now had a close brush with death on a Florida veterinarian’s operating table.

March 21-31: snow goose, left, ring-necked duck, hooded merganser, pied-billed grebe, great blue heron, black-crowned night heron, turkey vulture, sharp-shinned hawk, Cooper’s hawk, common snipe ...