In addition to the long-tailed ducks, we saw scads of white-winged scoters. This species is also a rarity on Lake Erie. A prime reason for the abundance of long-tailed ducks and white-winged ...

Sea birds like long-tailed ducks can be seen on Minnesota's northern waters like Lake Superior in winter. Listen for their distinctive calls, which some describe as a yodel.

I've seen my first long-tailed duck of the year as early as New Year's Day and as late as Dec. 31. In 1984, my first sighting was April 7, late in the spring migration.

Long-tailed ducks are also black-and-white. In winter, they have a white head and neck with a grayish patch at the cheek, according to a description from The Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

In the absence of the harlequin duck at the Eastlake power plant, this long-tailed duck was the primary attract for birders. By James F. McCarty, The Plain Dealer ...

Long-tailed ducks, Clangula hyemalis, are robust birds of cold northern waters, breeding in tundra pools, marshes and in the lakes of Alaska, northern Canada, Greenland and Iceland.