"The Buffleheads are being difficult!" David Barrett, who runs the Manhattan Bird Alert Twitter, told me earlier this week as he tried to capture the newly arrived ducks in Central Park. They were ...

This unique diving duck has a small body and a relatively large head. The males are colorful and vibrant, with iridescent heads that appear black, purple, or green depending on the light. Buffleheads ...

The huge problems facing humans (global warming, prejudice, terrorists, corporate power, the price of fresh vegetables) can be so overwhelming that they immobilize us into inaction. So it’s always ...

Winter Pond and its little alcove are more appropriately named than one might think. I recently discovered flocks of migrating waterfowl making Winter Pond their temporary home. The bufflehead is one ...

This week’s highlighted species in our Blue Water Nature Series, is the bufflehead, Bucephala albeola, a beautiful duck that is common locally during winter months. I’ve heard people incorrectly ...

The Bufflehead was recently selected by the Nevada Waterfowl Association (NWA) to be this year’s species for the Nevada duck stamp art contest. The winning art of the contest, sanctioned by the Nevada ...

Trish O'Kane talks to her college students in her "Birding to Change the World" course about bufflehead ducks, which they saw feeding near the Colchester Causeway. O'Kane's students meet with fourth ...

While most of us were focused on Fairport Harbor to the south, Jerry Talkington was casually scanning the lake to the north, where he picked up a passing long-tailed duck, aka oldsquaw. Awaiting us to ...