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With how many species of this familiar waterfowl live in or migrate through the state, you could say Virginia is for duck lovers. From diving ducks to sea ducks to dabbling ducks, over 30 species ...
The king eider is a large Arctic duck species, breeding on the tundra during summer and spending winters at sea. It can dive as deep as 180 feet to feed on crustaceans, mollusks, and other aquatic ...
It's not scuba diving — it's SNUBA diving — and first-timers can explore a whole new world beneath the waves off Duck Key.
Explore unique duck facts and intriguing questions: Can ducks fly? What do they eat? ... Diving ducks and sea ducks—also called scaups—dive deep underwater in search of food.
Diving ducks, on the other hand, do as their name suggests, diving from 10 to 30 feet deep as they forage for clams, mussels, crayfish, crabs, and deeply submerged vegetation.
Naturalists who visited the Bering Sea decades ago found huge flocks of a particular diving duck. The Steller's eider, with an orange breast, black collar and green dots on its head, once bred all ...
Imagine this: You see a medium-sized, black-and-white waterfowl with a white crescent on its face, bobbing on the surface of Heart Lake (on the Flat Tops). Suddenly, it dives.