by simpleDesigns | Oct 30, 2010 | Birding
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...
by simpleDesigns | Dec 21, 2009 | Birding
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...