Tufted duck

Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula) No photo of the Tufted Duck available. The Tufted Duck is from the order Anseriformes. Anseriformes are birds, with over 150 species belonging to this order.

TUFTED DUCK FACTS Description The adult male Tufted Duck is all black with white sides and a blue gray bill, and a tuft on the head. The eye is bright yellow. The female is brown with paler brown sides.

Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula) Tufted Ducks are divers and can dive to a depth of 14 metres in search of its wide variety of animal and vegetable food.

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The tufted duck is a medium-sized diving duck, smaller than a mallard. It is black on the head, neck, breast and back and white on the sides. It has a small crest and a yellow eye.

Tufted Duck Back to the pochards, or diving ducks. This one is a regular "visitor" to the west coast.

The Tufted Duck of Europe, Fuligula cristata, is very intimately allied to this species.

Tufted Duck 18. Smew 19. Common Merganser 20. Osprey 21. Black Kite 22. Northern Goshawk 23. Common Buzzard 24. Eastern Marsh Harrier 25. Kestrel 26. Chinese Bamboo Partridge 27. Coot 28. Kentish Plover 29. Long-billed Plover 30. Northern Lapwing 31.

Hybrid ducks of the genus Aythya, including birds which are a mixture of Tufted Duck, Greater Scaup, Pochard, Ferruginous Duck and Ring-necked Duck ...

The most similar species is the Tufted Duck, which rarely occurs in the continental United States. The Tufted Duck has a crest or tuft of feathers on its head, and a much less noticeable white ring on the bill.

Tufted Duck - Aythya fuligula Greater Scaup - Aythya marila Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis King Eider - Somateria spectabilis Common Eider - Somateria mollissima Harlequin Duck - Histrionicus histrionicus Surf Scoter - Melanitta perspicillata ...

See also: Duck, Scaup, Wigeon, Goldeneye, Common Goldeneye