Long-tailed Duck

Description

Clangula hyemalis

In winter Long-tailed Duck drakes have a white head, neck and upper breast with a gray cheek patch and a large black patch below the cheek. The drake's body is white and black. During the breeding season the drake's head is black and the hen has a brown head and body with a white patch around the eye and white under the tail. In all plumages Long-tailed ducks have dark wings and the drakes have long central tail feathers.