Bird Sightings: Ring-necked Duck

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Bird Sightings : Hebrides : Ring-necked Duck

Ring-necked Duck

Aythya collaris

Photographs © Andy Robinson
Loch Tiumpan - Isle of Lewis - Outer Hebrides (Western Isles)
11th December 2005

Ring-necked duck

Aythya collaris

Scarce visitor, less than 20 annual UK records (usually 1 - 3 WI annually)

Small diving duck - looks like a tufted duck

Breeds: North America

Winters: South - Central America

Diet: (Aquatic - feeds by diving) tubers, plant seeds, molluscs, small fish, invertebrates

Habitat: Marsh areas, lochs, lakes, bays, rivers ( preferably with thick vegetation)

Grey bill has white band, head purple & shiny, white breast, yellow eyes, back grey

Adult female, pale brown head & body, dark brown back, dark bill has more subtle light band than male, brown eyes

BTO records

Male or female ducks:
Some people use the word duck only for an adult female and drake for an adult male whilst others say hen and drake.

Other local bird photographs

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