Meet the Sea Ducks

There are 15 species of sea ducks in North America in several groups including eiders, scoters, goldeneyes, mergansers, Harlequin Duck, Long-tailed Ducks, and Bufflehead. Learn more about them  on our website , and see all the species below.

Photo Credits & species (top to bottom, left to right): Hooded Merganser, Shiva Shenoy, Creative Commons; Steller's Eider, Peter Pearsall, USFWS; Long-tailed Duck, J. Mills, NPS; Surf Scoter, Deborah Freeman, Creative Commons; White-winged Scoter, Angie Armstrong, Creative Commons, King Eider, Tim Sackton, Creative Commons; Harlequin Duck, Bob Wick, BLM; Spectacled Eider, Peter Pearsall, USFWS; Barrow's Goldeneye, Gannon Castle, USFWS; Common Goldeneye, Tom Koerner, USFWS; Black Scoter, Kristine Sowl, USFWS; Common Eider, Peter Pearsall, USFWS; Red-breasted Merganser, Bill Thompson, USFWS; Bufflehead, Allan Hack, Creative Commons.

While many of these sites may be remote, our new virtual field trips will transport you around the globe, helping us showcase the incredible beauty, scale, and importance of these places to sea duck populations. Let's dive in.

Flying across North America to the Northeast, we first land in the Eastern Canadian Arctic.

The Eastern Canadian Arctic

The Atlantic Coast

The Pacific Coast

Alaska & The Bering Sea

The Russian Arctic

Now we will travel outside North America, across the Pacific to Russia. While these sites aren't included in our atlas, they are critically important for many of the species we love to see in North America.

Find the full  Sea Duck Key Habitat Sites Atlas here  and learn more about sea ducks at  seaduckjv.org. 

Photo Credits & species (top to bottom, left to right): Hooded Merganser, Shiva Shenoy, Creative Commons; Steller's Eider, Peter Pearsall, USFWS; Long-tailed Duck, J. Mills, NPS; Surf Scoter, Deborah Freeman, Creative Commons; White-winged Scoter, Angie Armstrong, Creative Commons, King Eider, Tim Sackton, Creative Commons; Harlequin Duck, Bob Wick, BLM; Spectacled Eider, Peter Pearsall, USFWS; Barrow's Goldeneye, Gannon Castle, USFWS; Common Goldeneye, Tom Koerner, USFWS; Black Scoter, Kristine Sowl, USFWS; Common Eider, Peter Pearsall, USFWS; Red-breasted Merganser, Bill Thompson, USFWS; Bufflehead, Allan Hack, Creative Commons.