"The Buffleheads are being difficult!" David Barrett, who runs the Manhattan Bird Alert Twitter, told me earlier this week as he tried to capture the newly arrived ducks in Central Park. They were ...

The spring passage of waterfowl continued apace early in the week. Indeed, it may have reached its peak, as thousands of birds of a score – at least – of species moved into and beyond the Red River ...

While most of us were focused on Fairport Harbor to the south, Jerry Talkington was casually scanning the lake to the north, where he picked up a passing long-tailed duck, aka oldsquaw. Awaiting us to ...

This unique diving duck has a small body and a relatively large head. The males are colorful and vibrant, with iridescent heads that appear black, purple, or green depending on the light. Buffleheads ...

Bufflehead ducks arrived in their local saltwater winter habitat on Saturday, giving Sidney biologist Kerry Finley a small reason to relax. Finley said a solitary male arrived at the local sanctuary ...

A bufflehead was reported on Pleasant Lake in New London on July 25.It's a small duck, rarely seen in the state, whose normal range is in the Arctic and Canada.The males are mostly white with a black ...

A colored pencil rendition of a bufflehead duck has been chosen as the 2008 best of show in the North Dakota Junior Duck Stamp Contest. Seventeen-year-old Ashley Berg from Valley City titled her ...