Duck ID Videos

Welcome to a new approach to identifying the Ducks of North America.



Standard field guides include photos or drawings but these static methods of portraying birds do not depict their actual behavior or habitat. Bob Hamblin’s Duck ID Videos show ducks in their natural surroundings and engaged in natural behavior.



All species accounts include live action videos, range maps and professionally recorded narratives that describe field marks, behavior and habitat.


Watching Bob’s videos is a proven way to sharpen your birding skills. It’s like being in the field with your binoculars on the bird and a naturalist at your side.


All of the information in our videos has received extensive ornithological review, most notably by Paul Lehman, the former editor of the American Birding Association’s (ABA) Birding magazine.


This book features 44 species of North American Ducks. The video for each species averages 1 minute 13 seconds in length. The total run time is 53 minutes 33 seconds. The species list includes:



American Black Duck • American Wigeon • Baikal Teal • Barrow’s Goldeneye • Black Scoter • Black-bellied Whistling Duck • Blue-winged Teal • Bufflehead • Canvasback • Cinnamon Teal • Common Eider • Common Goldeneye • Common Merganser • Common Pochard • Common Shelduck • Eurasian Wigeon • Falcated Duck • Fulvous Whistling Duck • Gadwall • Garganey • Greater Scaup • Green-winged Teal • Harlequin Duck, • Hooded Merganser, • King Eider, • Lesser Scaup, • Long-tailed Duck, • Mallard, • Mandarin Duck • Mottled Duck • Muscovy Duck • Northern Pintail • Northern Shoveler • Red-breasted Merganser • Redhead • Ring-necked Duck • Ruddy Duck • Smew • Spectacled Eider • Steller’s Eider • Surf Scoter • Tufted Duck • White-winged Scoter • Wood Duck



These videos are great teaching aids. I envy the new birders who will get a head start in their birding careers because of your efforts. Such a fine learning tool…Marv Breece, Washington State Big Year Record Holder, 2001 - 2011



Bob Hamblin is a videographer who has been photographing the birds of North America for more than 30 years. He has traveled over 300,000 miles doing field work in all the U.S. states and most Canadian provinces.


In total, Bob has recorded 622 North American species. His videos often include courtship and territorial displays, nesting behavior and bird interactions with other animals.


Bob has previously sold his work through the ABA with almost 15% of the membership making a purchase.


As a birder who has participated in over 30 Audubon counts, I found Bob’s videos to be an informative and practical way for me to improve my birding skills…Kit Muehlman