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 ...

Twenty species of waterfowl were found with the most unusual being a pair of gadwall and three ring-necked ducks. Common loons abounded with 426 spotted along with 20 red-throated loons.

Ringneck ducks, the species most common on Florida waters, are in the lesser scaup family. They have been filling hunters' limits since hydrilla was introduced into Central Florida four decades ago.

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 ...