Tropical Audubon Society

South Florida’s Voice of Conservation

I spotted a trio of small ducks far off in the water at Wakodahatchee today - they were a good few hundred yards away, so I had to use all of my 600mm equivalent reach and about 80% cropping to identify them. I thought at first they were hooded mergansers as they appeared mostly black and white and had that white slash around the head. But on getting home and looking at them blown up on the screen, the bills were too large and the white was in the wrong spot. The only other bird I could find that seemed to be a match was the bufflehead...but I've never seen a bufflehead down here and haven't heard of them down here either. I've attached photos to get a confirmation.