WEST GLACIER, Mont. - Researchers at Glacier National Park and the University of Montana recently identified at 17-year-old male harlequin duck. It's a rare find, since the average lifespan of a ...

University researchers are on the hunt for sightings of a duck rarely seen in the Sierra Nevada. The harlequin duck is a distinctive waterfowl more known to Alaskans and residents of the Pacific ...

Once every few years, local bird watchers line the St. Clair River to get a view of a rare visit from a small flock of harlequin ducks. The shores of the local strait is perfect habitat for this sea ...

wilderness to winter along rocky ocean shores. Although only a few nests were found in the 20th century and the duck’s future looked bleak, the annual arrival of adults on the coast kept alive Valley ...

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 ...

University of Montana graduate student Holli Holmes is changing the way Glacier Park studies waterfowl by introducing the use of environmental DNA capture techniques. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake) ...

Mark and Mary Magistro and the finished mount. (Diann Jackson photo) Oswego, N.Y. -- A rare (for this area) Harlequin duck spotted in the Oswego River in late February will be staying at SUNY Oswego's ...

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 ...