The Redhead is a diving duck of North America. In breeding plumage the male has a reddish-brown head and blue-gray bill; the female is brown with a paler face.
The breeding male has a reddish-brown head, black chest, gray body and blue-gray bill. The female is mostly brown with a paler face.
It eats aquatic plants and small animals, feeding by diving and sometimes tipping up at the surface. In winter on the Gulf of Mexico, it uses seagrass beds.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.