Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris)

Other Names (World)
Ring-necked Duck, Ring-billed Duck, Ringneck

Family
Anatidae (Ducks, Geese, Swans)

Size
42 - 43.50 cm

First Described (Guide)
(Donovan, 1809)

Habitat
Freshwater lakes, marshes, swamps.

Range (Guide)

Anguilla, Antigua And Barbuda, Aruba, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bermuda, Canada (B) (P), Cayman Islands, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Martinique, Mexico, Montserrat, Netherlands Antilles, Nicaragua, Panama, Puerto Rico, St Kitts And Nevis, St Lucia, St Pierre and Miquelon (B) (P), St Vincent and The Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, USA (B), Venezuela, Virgin Islands (British) (NB), Virgin Islands (U.S.) (NB).

Vagrant to Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Cape Verde, Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Jamaica, Japan, Morocco, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom.

Central Alaska and central Canada east to Newfoundland, south to central and western USA, as far south as northern California, Colorado and Great Lakes region.

Population
Estimated population is 1,500,000 (2010).

Status LC
For more information see BirdLife International Species Factsheet.

Voice
Xeno-Canto Sound Files (more (45)...)

Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) [XC66135]
by Janine McCabe from Capitol Lake, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States (call)

Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) [XC871079]
by id from Arrondissement de Quimper (near Pont-Croix), Finist\u00e8re, Bretagne, France (call, song)

Subspecies
Considered by some to form superspecies with New Zealand Scaup (Aythya novaeseelandiae) and Tufted Duck (Aythya fuligula), although probably affinities closer to Canvasback (Aythya valisineria), Common Pochard (Aythya ferina) and Redhead (Aythya americana).

No subspecies.

References
See References.

Files:

JPG files for Ring-necked Duck (Aythya collaris) - 10 files

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