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Eastern phoebes may nest at the same site for years â this one has chosen a light fixture just under the eaves of a shop roof at Six Mile Lake â if that site has proven successful for raising broods of chicks in the past.
(Betsy Bloom/Daily News photos)
While it might look like the male bufflehead, at right, has a harem, this diving duck species is monogamous. Like wood ducks and hooded mergansers, the females are cavity nesters that may return to the same nest site year after year. Its small size â it is among the smallest of North Americaâs ducks â allows it to fit where other cavity nesting waterfowl cannot go. It normally nests in the boreal forests of Canada and Alaska.