Ruddy Duck
Oxyura jamaicensis
Least Concern (IUCN Red List)Ducks, Geese, and Waterfowl
Call and song
Recording 1 · song, runing on water
Recording 2
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About the Ruddy Duck
Small, compact duck with a long, fan-shaped tail, often held sticking up out of water. Breeding males have a chestnut body, black cap, white cheek, and baby-blue bill. Winter males have a brown body, black cap and white cheek. Females and immature males are brown overall with a dark cap and dark line through the cheek. Often in tight groups bobbing like corks on ponds and bays. Dives to forage on aquatic invertebrates. Not often seen flying.
Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made
Where it has been recorded
Recorded in 61 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.
- Anguilla
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Austria
- Bahamas
- Barbados
- Belgium
- Belize
- Bermuda
- Bolivia
- Canada
- Caribbean Netherlands
- Cayman Islands
- Chile
- Costa Rica
- Cuba
- Cyprus
- Czech Republic
- Denmark
- Dominican Republic
- El Salvador
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- Honduras
- Hungary
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Jersey
- Martinique
- Mexico
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Nicaragua
- Norway
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Sint Maarten
- Slovakia
- South Africa
- Spain
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- United Kingdom
- United States
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
