This unique diving duck has a small body and a relatively large head. The males are colorful and vibrant, with iridescent heads that appear black, purple, or green depending on the light.

Although diving ducks, or “divers,” will spend time on shallow ponds, frequent haunts for these rugged fowl include big-water lakes and rivers with typical feeding depths of 10-50 feet.

Four Maccoa ducklings, one of Africa's rarest duck species, have hatched at Chester Zoo for the very first time. The ducklings mark the zoo's first ever successful breeding of the endangered African ...

Delray's Rosie Moore stars in Netflix’s 'All the Sharks,' a diving competition to photograph rare species for a $50K conservation prize.

The dabblers are distinguished from the diving ducks (bufflehead, goldeneye, etc.), which are very able divers. The legs of the divers are placed behind the center of gravity, ...