Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

Length: 16-19"(40-48 cm). Description: A small diving, fish-eating duck with a long slender bill. Males: a large black crest/hood with a white patch, a white breast with black stripes,  chestnut colored sides, and flanks, black upperparts. Long black slender bill and a bright yellow iris  (see image here). Females: cinnamon with a backward slanted crest that can be raised or lowered, dusky brown backs with gray chests and sides, a black upper bill edged with orange and the lower part yellow, the eyes are brown and the feet are green.

Habitat: Ponds, lakes; 

Status: Extremely rare.

Number of times recorded on the island: 2 (2006, 2018) 

Comments: Breeds mainly in southeastern Canada, nests in the cavity of trees.

 

A diving duck, a long slender bill, and a reddish crest that can be raised or lowered

Non-breeding males, females, and immature: brownish-grey, darker on the back

underparts - white

white wing patch in flight

Yellow-crowned Night-Heron (Nyctanassa violacea)

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American Wigeon (Anas americana)

Local Name: baldplate, Length:17–23"(42–59 cm); Description: medium-sized dabbling ducks, a short bill and a round head, grey-blue bill with a black tip, Underparts white, legs and feet are blue-gray to dark gray, Males: white patch from the forehead to the middle of the crown, an iridescent green band from the eye to the back of the head. Females and nonbreeding males: brownish gray head and a dark smudge around the eye

Habitat: freshwater wetlands, lakes; 

Statue: Almost a yearly migrant from North America.

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Male Am. Wigeons have a white patch from the forehead to the middle of the crown (bald plate), an iridescent green band from the eye to the back of the head

Females and nonbreeding males have a brownish-gray head and a dark smudge around the eyes

Male

Female

 

White underparts

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Common Shelduck (Tadorna tadorna)

Length: 22-26" (56-67 cm) Description: large goose-like duck, Monotypic (males and females look alike), a reddish-pink bill, pink feet, a white body with chestnut patches and a black belly, and a dark green head and neck. The wing coverts are white, the primary remiges black, and the secondaries green (only showing in flight) and chestnut. Habitat: marshes and estuaries; 

Status: Vagrant, Extremely Rare,  Vagrant; 

Comment:  Common in the Euro-Siberian region of the Palearctic, mainly breeding in temperate and wintering in subtropical regions, also common around the coastline of Great Britain and Ireland. It was first recorded in Barbados in November 2013 in St. Lucy, which was also the first record for the Caribbean,

white and chestnut body, dark green head and neck, and a bright red bill

Northern Shoveler (Spatula clypeata)

Northern Shoveler - Anas clypeata

 

Ring-necked Duck

Ring-necked Duck  - Aythya collaris

Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Coccyzus americanus)

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