Long-tailed Duck

2 Artic Birds in the same week!!!  Tuesday, I watched the Snow Buntings and yesterday I followed a MOU post over to Vadnais Lake and saw my first male Long-tailed Duck.  Linda W and I viewed a female Long-tail in Prescott last winter, but this was a first...

Long-tailed Duck

Minnesota birders have been enjoying sightings of this Arctic duck along the Mississippi River.  Formerly known as Oldsquaw, the Long-tailed Duck breeds in the Arctic and winters along both coasts of North America. It is distinctive among ducks in plumage, molt...