These are active, strong-winged fliers moving singly or in small flocks, often high in the air. Distinctive wing-whistling sound in flight has earned the name of whistlers. Inland, they like rapids, fast water and the St. Lawrence estuary in Qu bec. Barrow's Goldeneye Common Goldeneye Hen Drake Hen Drake Hens of both species are look-alikes.
Drakes have a piercing speer-speer hens a low quack .
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