Ring-necked Duck Aythya collaris

Classification

Anatidae [family]

Aythya [genus] (2)

Anatidae [family]

Aythya [genus] (2)

Recorded on	Aruba
	Bonaire
	Curaçao
	Sint Maarten

Presence status	Indigenous (1) - Aruba
	Indigenous (1) - Bonaire
	Indigenous (1) - Curaçao
	Indigenous (1) - Sint Maarten
	To be expected (3c)

Distribution description	North America.

Notes on presence status	In 2002 first observed in St. Martin (Brown & Collier, 2006). Rare winter visitor from North America. This bird might be a very infrequent visitor of the Dutch Caribbean Islands according to Macrae et al (2021), but this species has not been recorded yet on Saba and St. Eustatius.

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