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On a cloudy day at Skokie Lagoons in the Chicago-land area, this Barrow's Goldeneye joined a large group of Common Goldeneyes. This was a rare visitor to our area. It stayed almost two weeks in early February 2012. The picture was taken with a Canon 50D, shutter speed 1/320, f5.6, .67 exposure bias...

These three beautiful ducks were seen in the summer of 2010 at the Cape May Nature Preserve. It was a rare sighting in New Jersey.

This bird is normally a resident in Asia. This duck has delighted many people since its arrival at the Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in Colusa, California, on December 8, 2011.

This bird is normally a resident of Asia. The beautiful duck arrived at the Colusa National Wildlife Rufuge in Colusa, California, on December 8, 2011, and continues to give birders a chance to photograph or just observe it daily. I took this photo with a 7D camera, 400mm, f/5.6, ISO 400.

Bryant Olsen, along with Norm and Gail Jensen, while on a Great Salt Lake Audubon Society trip today discovered a Harlequin Duck along the Antelope Island Causeway. This will be the 13th record as noted on the Utah Bird Records Committee's website and likely only the 7th officially accepted and documented...

I had never seen one of these ducks before except in pictures. He just dropped into a small spring pond on my friend's farm in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania, one summer day and stayed a few days before going on his way. The image was captured with an 80-200 f2.8 Nikon lens on a Nikon D100. It was...

On November 10 2012 I had the great good fortune of "discovering" this male Mandarin Duck at suburban, busy Averill Park here in coastal LA County's San Pedro. It was with the Mallards, and has now been there for nearly 2 months. The camera used was a Canon 7D with the 500 f/4 IS L lens...

This photo was taken at Lake Morton in Lakeland, Florida, on February 29, 2012, with a Canon 50D and Canon 100-400 IS lens.

I photographed this immature Long-tailed Duck (front) and Surf Scoter from an oceanic jetty in Playa Del Rey, Los Angeles County, California, on March 3, 2012. Long-tailed Ducks are rare winter visitors to Southern California. I used a Canon 7D camera and a Canon 100-400mm lens to make this shot.

There has been a Tufted Duck aroung Saint John the last 10 years in the winter, but authorities are quite certain that it is the same bird hanging around the same north end area.

Tufted Duck taken at Heckscher Park Pond, Huntington, Long Island, NY. April 3, 2013. Very rare duck for this area. Taken with a Canon EOS Rebel at 400mm f/5.6 1/2000 ISO 400.