Svalbard long-tailed ducks

5 June 2013. As I wrote, we went back to Adventdalen in Spitsbergen, to see whether the long-tailed duck couple was still swimming in the narrow ice-free channel along the road. They were.

Sometimes, the male and female duck swam to the east.

Sometimes, they swam to the west. As long as the ice would not break up more, these were the only directions where they could swim.

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