Long-tailed Ducks/Clangula hyemalis off the Rockaway Peninsula. It’s the male who has the long tail:
This is the duck formerly known as the Oldsquaw. The AOU formally changed the name in 2000.
Very much a diving duck.
Long-tailed Ducks
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