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 ...

Once every few years, local bird watchers line the St. Clair River to get a view of a rare visit from a small flock of harlequin ducks. The shores of the local strait is perfect habitat for this ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The bird has been seen between the snowmobile ... There was one or two female harlequin ducks seen along the coast in Rye during the past week. There was a male Barrow's goldeneye seen on the ...

Tripping through the Peterson Field Guide to the Birds took me to places far beyond my landlocked world of Columbus, showing me birds I had never seen. I was especially smitten with sea ducks.

The bird spends spring and summer in the northern ... traveled to Lake Erie to see his first harlequin duck in Pennsylvania. He didn’t have to travel far to see his second.