Long-tailed Ducks Molting into Breeding Plumage in Toronto

Male Long-tailed Duck molting into breeding plumage. Toronto Harbour on 13 April 2016.

 

Please scroll down for more photos showing different males in various stages of molt into breeding plumage.

Toronto Harbour on 13 April 2016.

 

Toronto Harbour on 13 April 2016.

 

Lovely combinations of colours and feathers. Toronto Harbour on 13 April 2016

 

Toronto Harbour on 13 April 2016

 

This one is still mostly in winter plumage when most others are more advanced into breeding plumage. Toronto Harbour on 13 April 2016

 

Quite a transformation. Toronto Harbour on 13 April 2016

 

Other Pages of Long-tailed Ducks

 

Long-tailed Ducks molting into breeding plumage in Toronto on 23 April 2016

 

More Long-tailed Ducks - page 6 - in Pickering on 5 March 2016

 

Variation in Long-tailed Ducks - page 4 - near Toronto on 2-3 March 2016

 
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