Arriving an hour too early for Thursday's Palm Desert City Council meeting, I meandered over to Civic Center Park to hang out with the multitude of ducks lounging lakeside.

This Crested Duck In Echo Park Lake Can Be Our Very Own "Hot Duck" Look out Central Park—Echo Park has an attractive bird resident. Author: Hailey Eber. Publish date: Feb 6, 2019.

Often, when I am out birding in wetlands I have someone asking me what the large black “duck” is that is sitting in the trees when it is not swimming Montana Birding: Double-crested cormorant ...