Ring-necked Duck

Local status: Very rare vagrant

This handsome American diving duck is best searched for among late-winter and spring flocks of Tufted Ducks, A. fuligula and Pochards, A. ferina. A number of drakes have wintered in Yorkshire and the wanderings of some of these birds have accounted for a number of the York area records.

Records:
2023: The drake remained at CHL to 5th January.
2022: a drake at CHL on 30th December stayed into the New Year. https://birdingdad.blogspot.com/2022/12/york-ring-necked-duck.html
2019: a drake was at Bubwith Ings on 10th October.
2006: North Duffield Carrs, 29th to 31st May. Male.
2004: Wheldrake Ings, 14th to 28th February. Male. Relocated to North Duffield Carrs on 19th, and remained between there and Aughton Ings for the remainder of the month. Trapped and ringed on 22nd February.
2000: Wheldrake Ings, 26th December. Two males.
1998: Wheldrake Ings, 31st May to 29th June. Male.
1994: Wheldrake Ings, 11th March; Wharfe Ings, Cawood, 7th March. Male.
1983: Bank Island, 7th May. Male.
1981: Wheldrake Ings, 14th to 20th April and again on 25th April. Male.


Unsubstantiated records:
1995: Lower Derwent Valley, 6th, 11th to 13th and 20th January. Female: