Svalbard long-tailed ducks revisited

This video is called Eider Ducks Diving Under The Arctic Sea Ice.

Spitsbergen, 7 June 2013. After the snow buntings, dunlins and reindeer of the Adventdalen valley, we return to the dog cages just east of Longyearbyen town; to the common eider colony. There, we see a male and a female of a bird species, rare for Svalbard. They will have to wait till a later blog post.

As we also see a male and a female long-tailed duck swim in the pond just west of the dog cages.

Minutes later, a male long-tailed duck resting on an islet in that lake.

He is in transition between winter and summer plumage. He still has winter white on the top of his head.

He cleans his feathers.

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