A drake harlequin is feathered art — as if Mother Nature commissioned Picasso to design the duck. Scoters are showy, too, particularly adult males. We have three species: black, surf and white ...

Harlequin ducks live most of the year along the east and west coasts of North America. In spring, they visit fast-flowing rivers and streams in Alaska and other northern locales to nest.

"Mary was the first to spot the duck on Feb. 28," according to a story posted on the Onondaga Audubon website. "Unfortunately, she was also watching it on March 9 with her son when it took its ...

When Stephen Kloiber spotted a colorful duck swimming among a flock of common goldeneyes in late December in the Delaware River, he knew it didn't belong. It turns out it was a harlequin duck the ...

University researchers are on the hunt for sightings of a duck rarely seen in the Sierra Nevada. The harlequin duck is a distinctive waterfowl more known to Alaskans and residents of the Pacific ...