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Range Map for Long-tailed Duck

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Migration

Short-to medium-distance migrant. Returns to arctic breeding grounds by late May or June. Following breeding, males leave and travel to molting sites where they congregate in huge numbers, possibly in coastal Russia and northwest Greenland. They return to wintering areas on the coasts and on the Great Lakes beginning in October.

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