Hardhead

Call and song

• Recording 1 · call, wing noise

  Recording: Andrew Spencer · Xeno-canto · CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 (licence)

• Recording 2

  Recording: Charlie Andrews; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

• Recording 3

  Recording: Andrew Spencer; Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Macaulay Library

About the Hardhead

Chocolate brown diving duck with white rump and large white panels in the wings. Male has white eyes. Female is slightly paler with dusky eyes. Similar to Musk and Blue-billed Ducks, but Hardhead sits higher in the water, has a white patch on the rump, and lacks a spiky tail.

Species account: eBird.org, fetched 2025-12-26 · How these pages are made

Where it has been recorded

Recorded in 8 of the 253 countries we have eBird lists for. Each opens that country's checklist.

• Australia
• Germany
• Indonesia
• New Caledonia
• New Zealand
• Papua New Guinea
• Timor-Leste
• Vanuatu