[ HISTRIONICUS HISTRIONICUS ] Every year, California's rarest duck emerges from the heart of some remote mountain wilderness to winter along rocky ocean shores. Harlequin duck - Los Angeles Times ...

The harlequin duck’s compact body and webbed feet enable it to swim through rushing waters. It’s agile underwater and can maintain its position even in strong river, lake and ocean currents.

Actual reported sightings of the harlequin duck in the Sierra Nevada have been few and far between, however, with the paper showing a population size of just 10 as of the 2008 publishing.

The harlequin duck is a fairly small creature, just slightly larger than our smallest duck, the bufflehead. Harlequins average 16.5 inches in length with a wingspan of 26 inches and weigh in at 1. ...

Harlequin duck, 17, returns to Glacier Park Thu., June 6, 2013 A male and female harlequin duck rest by a stream in Glacier National Park. (National Park Service) ...

This project is designed to address, on a regional scale, the factors that influence harlequin duck distribution and productivity in the southern Coast Mountains of British Columbia. This research ...

While data from the harlequin’s wintering range has shown a steady decline in population numbers of the past years, gathering information from the duck’s breeding habitat has always been a ...

Just upstream, preening on a rock, was a female harlequin duck with a geolocator on her leg. If Bate could recapture that bird and retrieve the geolocator she and her team had placed the previous year ...

When Stephen Kloiber spotted a colorful duck swimming among a flock of common goldeneyes in late December in the Delaware River, he knew it didn't belong. It turns out it was a harlequin duck the ...

WEST GLACIER — They first spotted him in 2011, and caught him in 2012. The harlequin duck, a male, had a silver band around a leg. The band was so old and worn, Glacier National Park biological ...

Actual reported sightings of the harlequin duck in the Sierra Nevada have been few and far between, however, with the paper showing a population size of just 10 as of the 2008 publishing.