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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

9:27… I JUMPED into the bay to retrieve the harlequin. The water appeared calm—until I started tracking the speed at which the current was ferrying my bird. I ...

An eye-catching pair of harlequin ducks is on the front, and a swallow-tailed kite is on the back. The meat of the 65-page checklist is the birds themselves: all 443 species. Twenty-three species ...

Binoculars brought this bird into a closer view and we were ... and that day we did not see the harlequin again. Harlequin ducks live most of the year along the east and west coasts of North ...