[Length 21 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Black-bellied Whistling-Duck was photographed at Sabal Palms Sanctuary, Brownsville, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 70-300mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens (EFL=450mm) on a Nikon D300 camera. (Date: June 14, 2011)

[Length 21 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Black-bellied Whistling-Duck in flight was photographed at the Convention Center gardens, South Padre Island, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: May 3, 2013)

[Length 21 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Black-bellied Whistling Duck in flight was photographed at the SPI Convention Center boardwalk, South Padre Island, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: August 22, 2013)

[Length 21 in. Wingspan 30 in.]

This Black-bellied Whistling-Duck was photographed at the SPI Convention Center gardens, South Padre Island, Texas. Photo taken with a AF-S VR Zoom-Nikkor 80-400mm f/4.5-5.6G IF-ED lens on a Nikon D7100 camera. (Date: May 07, 2018)

[Length 19 in. Wingspan 26 in.]

This Fulvous Whistling-Duck was photographed along a resaca in suburban Brownsville, Texas, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm EDAF f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: April 2000)

[Length 19 in. Wingspan 26 in.]

This Fulvous Whistling-Duck was photographed at St. James Park, London, England, Great Britain. It is part of the captive waterfowl collection there. Photo taken with a Nikkor EDAF 300 f4.0 lens on Kodachrome 200 film. (Date: April 2002)

[Length 24 in. Wingspan 38 in.]

Common Eiders occur in the far north of North America, Europe, and Siberia. While the males of all four species of Eider ducks have some kind of black-and-white pattern on the body, only the male Common Eider has a black-and-white head pattern. Females are a drab brown so they "blend in" on the nest while they incubate their eggs. In North America Common Eiders breed in the high Arctic coastal regions of Canada and Alaska. They winter along the western coasts of Alaska and Canada and the eastern coasts of Canada and the US south to New Jersey. These drake "Eastern" Common Eiders were photographed along the coast near Cape Ann, Massachusetts, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Ektachrome 200 film pushed to 800. (Date: February 1987)

[Length 24 in. Wingspan 38 in.]

This winter plumaged drake "Eastern" Common Eider was photographed at the famous 8th Street jetty in Barnegat, New Jersey, USA. Photo taken with a Nikkor 300mm ED f4.5 lens on Ektachrome 200 film pushed to 800. (Date: February 1982)