Harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus)

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The harlequin duck, a sea duck, occupies a niche that is unique among North American waterfowl. It uses clear, fast-flowing rivers and streams for breeding and is able to move swiftly and with great agility in turbulent white water, diving to river bottoms to pick larval insects from rocky substrates. This species account for the harlequin duck provides the known life history information for the species, including distribution, systematics, migration, habitat, sounds, behavior, and breeding. Research efforts, including large-scale coordinated banding programs, have been launched on both coasts of North America to understand the breeding ecology, population status, and movements of many harlequin duck populations. Migration routes have been established by satellite telemetry. It is hoped that these research efforts will help provide the information needed to better conserve this engaging species into the future.

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Location: This record is to the online version (http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/466/); a note to this effect is in ELECTRONIC FILES - Zoology: Birds. A small fee is required for access. (See also B99ROB01IDUS: a hard copy of the original BNA printing in 1999 should be available in the Wildlife Bureau, on reference shelves, in the black-boxed BNA collection of monographs.)

Recommended Citation: Robertson, Gregory J. and R. Ian Goudie. 1999. Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus), The Birds of North America Online (A. Poole, Ed.). Ithaca: Cornell Lab of Ornithology; Retrieved from the Birds of North America Online: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/466 doi:10.2173/bna.466.

SWAP (2/19/2016) Citation: Robertson GJ, Goudie RI. 1999. Harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus). The Birds of North America Online. (A Poole, editor). Ithaca: Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology. [accessed 2015 Jun 01]. http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species/466/.

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