Ducks, Geese, Swans
Harlequin Duck
Histrionicus histrionicus
The Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is a 562 g ocean-going bird that eats mostly fish and other water animals. Some populations migrate.
- Family
- Ducks, Geese, Swans
- Order
- Anseriformes
- Weight
- 562 g
- Habitat
- Marine
- Diet
- Invertebrates
- Migration
- Partial migrant
- Countries recorded
- 11
Recorded in United States, Canada, Iceland, Japan, Russia, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Republic of Korea, Greenland, United Kingdom, Norway, Netherlands.
Where to see it: Húsavík · Haukamýri (Iceland); Rason Lake (Dem. Rep. Korea); Húsavík · hafnarsvæði (harbour area) (Iceland); Nuuk (Greenland); Vallée du Milieu (Saint Pierre and Miquelon).
Photo: Chuck Homler d/b/a Focus On Wildlife, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons
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