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A Moorhen walks on the ice of a frozen lake

Eurasian coot is swimming in the lake in Russia

Female Long-tailed Duck swimming in tranquil waters

Greylag geese near Snettisham beach, Norfolk.

Common Redshank (Tringa totanus) is a migratory bird. It feeds on maggots and mollusks in wetlands in Asia, Europe, America and Africa.

The long-tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis), once known as oldsquaw. In the Frederick Sound of Alsaka.

The Marbled Duck or Marbled Teal (Marmaronetta angustirostris).

The Great-Tailed Grackle or Mexican Grackle (Quiscalus mexicanus) is a highly social North and South American medium-sized songbird. The males are glossy black and iridescent and the females are brown and drab colored. Although the grackle is black, it is not a blackbird. It is sometimes mistaken for a crow but is not a member of that family either. Great-tailed grackles originally came from the tropical lowlands of Central and South America but over the past 140 years have spread into North America. Grackles forage in pastures, wetlands and mangroves for a wide variety of food. They eat larvae, insects, nestlings, worms, tadpoles, fish and eggs. They remove parasites from cattle and eat fruits and grains. Grackles are highly intelligent birds that can solve complex problems to get food. The male grackle has a distinctive noisy call. They communally roost in trees at night and during the breeding season they build a nest in the trees. This female grackle was photographed at Walnut Canyon Lakes in Flagstaff, Arizona, USA.

Ducks playing in the water. Waterfowl background material.

A single, adult Red-fronted Coot (Fulica rufifrons) searches for food in the shallows of a lake in central Chile

Female American Wigeon, Bow Park, Saanich, BC Canada

View from Delta del Ebro, in Tarragona province, Catalonia, Spain.

The Common Goldeneye, or simply Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula).

Connemara, county Galway, Connacht province, Ireland, Europe

Striking large black-and-white wader with a thin, straight bill and bright pink legs, found in wetlands with open shallow water throughout much of Africa and Eurasia, often in brackish habitats. Some populations are migratory, departing northerly breeding grounds for warmer southern regions. Often forms noisy colonies on bare ground near water. Essentially unmistakable throughout much of its range, but compare with Pied Stilt in parts of Southeast Asia. Feeds by wading in water, picking from the water surface with its needle-like bill. In flight, long pink legs stick out far beyond the tail. Calls loudly and stridently, especially when alarmed during the breeding season.

The common moorhen (Gallinula chloropus), also known as a waterhen or swamp chicken, is a water bird species related to the rail (family Rallidae). It is found in many parts of the Old World, and has distinctive black plumage and a red beak. Here it is seen in water among reeds.

$L 10,5-12cm.\nBreeds in coniferous forest, often in older moss- and lichen-rich spruce, locally in S. Europe in deciduous woodland.\nResident. In N Europe joins winter tit bands.\nOften forage on ground or low branches. Not exactly shy, through usually difficult to approach.\nVisit bird tables only rarely.\nNest excavated in rotten trunk or stump.\n\nThis is a quite common Species in the Netherlands in the described Habitats.$