Beautiful Ring-Necked Ducks at Herring Pond On Cape Cod.

There was a nice flock of about 30 Ring-necked Ducks at Herring Pond the other day. They were just gorgeous! It was the first time we had seen Ring-necked Ducks on Cape Cod.

We saw a lot of these ducks out in Colorado way up high on a pond in the Rocky Mountains, so it was a treat to see some of them here too.

Ring-necked Ducks are medium diving ducks that have a blue-gray bill with a white ring and a black tip. I always wondered why they aren’t called “Ring-billed Ducks.”

Beautiful bird, don’t you think? Have you ever seen a Ring-necked Duck?

 

 

One thought on “Beautiful Ring-Necked Ducks at Herring Pond On Cape Cod.”

  1. These are beautiful! We’ve seen very few ducks of any kind in Connecticut.

    Wikipedia says there is a hard-to-detect cinnamon ring around the neck. Hmmm…”ring-billed” definitely makes more sense!

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