Ring-necked Duck

Description:

Ring-necked Ducks are small to medium sized diving ducks. The adult male is similar in color pattern to the Eurasian Tufted Duck, its relative. Males are a little bit bigger than the female. It has two white rings surrounding its gray bill, a shiny black angular head, black back, white line on the wings, a white breast and yellow eyes. The adult female has a grayish brown angular head and body with a dark brown back, a dark bill with a more subtle light band than the male, grayish-blue feet and brown eyes with white rings surrounding them.

Habitat:

Constructed pond in east-central Georgia. Typically seen on open bodies of water.

Notes:

The ring-necked ducks are in the foreground. The birds perched on the boom in the back of the pic are Double-creasted cormorants.