Common Goldeneye drake (Bucephala clangula) -06
Mission Creek, Kelowna, BC.
The discoloured breast reflects COGOs' habit of scraping the bottom of the shallow creek when foraging for food stuck to the rocks:
"Common Goldeneyes eat crustaceans and mollusks, including crabs, shrimp, crayfish, amphipods, barnacles, and mussels, along with insect prey such as caddisfly larvae, water boatmen, beetles, and nymphs of dragonfly, damselfly, and mayfly. They also eat sticklebacks, sculpin, minnows, and young salmon and salmon eggs. Vegetation in their diet includes the seeds of pondweeds, scatterdock, and bulrush. These aggressive ducks dominate most other duck species when competing for feeding areas."
(Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Keep your distance, paparazzo!
Common Goldeneye drake (Bucephala clangula) -06
Mission Creek, Kelowna, BC.
The discoloured breast reflects COGOs' habit of scraping the bottom of the shallow creek when foraging for food stuck to the rocks:
"Common Goldeneyes eat crustaceans and mollusks, including crabs, shrimp, crayfish, amphipods, barnacles, and mussels, along with insect prey such as caddisfly larvae, water boatmen, beetles, and nymphs of dragonfly, damselfly, and mayfly. They also eat sticklebacks, sculpin, minnows, and young salmon and salmon eggs. Vegetation in their diet includes the seeds of pondweeds, scatterdock, and bulrush. These aggressive ducks dominate most other duck species when competing for feeding areas."
(Cornell Lab of Ornithology)
Keep your distance, paparazzo!