Ring-necked Duck

Ring-necked Duck

Taxobox
name = Ring-necked Duck


image_width = 240px
image_caption = Drake (male)
status = LC | status_system = IUCN3.1
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Chordata
classis = Aves
ordo = Anseriformes
familia = Anatidae
genus = "Aythya"
species = "A. collaris"
binomial = "Aythya collaris"
binomial_authority = (Donovan, 1809)

The Ring-necked Duck ("Aythya collaris") is a smaller diving duck from North America.

The adult male is similar in color pattern to the Eurasian Tufted Duck, its relative. It has a grey bill with a white band, a shiny purple head, a white breast, yellow eyes and a dark grey back. The adult female has a pale brown head and body with a dark brown back, a dark bill with a more subtle light band than the male and brown eyes. The cinnamon neck ring is usually difficult to observe.

Their breeding habitat is wooded lakes or ponds in the northern United States and Canada. They overwinter in southern North America, usually in lakes, ponds, rivers or bays. This strong migrant is a rare but regular vagrant to western Europe. Vagrant individuals also occur each year in Central America as far south as Costa Rica between October/November and May/June [Herrera "et al." (2006)] .

These birds feed mainly by diving. They eat aquatic plants as well as some molluscs, aquatic insects and small fish.

The nest is bowl-shaped, built with aquatic vegetation and lined with down, in a dry location near open water. The female lays 8 to 10 eggs and may remain with the young until they are able to fly.

Footnotes

References

*|year=2004|id=47218|title=Aythya collaris|downloaded=5 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
* (2006): Nuevos registros para la avifauna de El Salvador. ["New records for the avifauna of El Salvador"] . "Boletín de la Sociedad Antioqueña de Ornitología" 16(2): 1-19. [Spanish with English abstract] [http://www.sao.org.co/publicaciones/boletinsao/01-Herrera.etal.RecordsSalvador.pdf PDF fulltext]

External links

* [http://www.birds.cornell.edu/AllAboutBirds/BirdGuide/Ring-necked_Duck.html Cornell Lab of Ornithology - Ring-necked Duck]
* [http://www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/id/framlst/i1500id.html USGS Patuxent Bird Information - Ring-necked Duck]
* [http://www.enature.com/fieldguides/detail.asp?recnum=BD0402 eNature.com - Ring-necked Duck]
* [http://www.sdakotabirds.com/species/ring_necked_duck_info.htm South Dakota Birds - Ring-necked Duck]
* [http://www.massaudubon.org/birdatlas/index.php?search=yes&id=5 Massachusetts Breeding Bird Atlas]


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