From a distance, the first thing you’ll probably notice about a canvasback is the striking white feathers along its back. The bird’s red head feathers turn to black along its front.

Rare birds such as the Hen Harrier, Canvasback and Osprey have been spotted across Essex since the start of 2025.

For several decades, waterfowl stood out as a conservation bright spot with duck populations growing nationwide even as many other groups of birds declined in the U.S. But that trend has reversed, the ...

American Bird Conservancy, National Audubon Society and the American Ornithological Society. FILE – A canvasback duck takes flight on a wetland near Rutland, N.D., on Saturday, June 22 ...

FILE - A canvasback duck takes flight on a wetland near Rutland, N.D., on Saturday, June 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 112 North American bird species have ...