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Ring-necked Duck
Aythya collaris
47.0787, -122.708
Field Notes
Description:
A diving duck with distinctive black, gray and white patterns. A peaked head, bright yellow eyes and a gray bill with white rings and a black tip.
Habitat:
Spotted at the Billy Frank Jr. Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge.
Notes:
Wooded lakes, ponds; in winter, also rivers, bays. In summer on freshwater marshes, ponds, and bogs, mainly in openings in forested country. In migration and winter on ponds, lakes, slow-moving rivers, sometimes on coastal estuaries, but generally not on saltwater bays.
Species ID Suggestions
Spotted for Missions
Photographed
PublishedMarch 14, 2018
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