This week’s nature series features the Lesser Scaup, Aythya affinis, one of our most common diving ducks that is well known to hunters as the little bluebill or broadbill. This bird is common ...

Whether dabbling ducks of diving, ducks are fun to watch in the winter By Gary Clark , Correspondent Dec 2, 2023 The ring-necked duck is a common diving duck.

Diving ducks, unlike dabbling or “puddle ducks” (mallards, teal, shovelers, baldpates, pintails, black ducks and the like), are often spotted in the middle of a river or lake where water is ...

Gulls have learned to follow diving ducks and take the bottom-dwelling mussels that the ducks bring to the surface, a food source that would otherwise be inaccessible to them. Gulls are one of the ...

The ducks have been starving to death, ... DNR: Diving ducks that are starving because of ice won't eat bread or popcorn from well-wishers . Updated: Apr. 01, 2014, ...

China's population of the Baer's Pochard, a critically endangered diving duck, ... revealing that 83.6 percent of the ducks cluster in 16 habitats, with each hosting over 30 ducks.

Our dabblers are not diving ducks, they just tip over into the water to forage. New Jersey's dabblers include mallard, black duck, northern pintail, green-winged and blue-winged teal, northern ...