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Learn how to identify Common Merganser, its life history, cool facts, sounds and calls, and watch videos. A large diving duck with a long thin bill, the Common Merganser is found along large lakes and rivers across the northern hemisphere. ... For complete information on this species, ... Large, slender diving duck.
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www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/common_merganser/id
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/common_merganser/id
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Lophodytes cucullatus ORDER: ANSERIFORMES FAMILY: ANATIDAE ... IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern ... Other female mergansers have thinner crests and red on bill.
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www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/hooded_merganser/id
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/hooded_merganser/id
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Female, immature and eclipse male distinguished from similarly-plumaged Red-breasted Mergansers by sharply-defined chin, reddish head contrasting with white breast, paler gray plumage, sleeker crest and larger bill. ... In winter, Common Mergansers, unlike Red-breasted Mergansers, are generally found in freshwater habitats.
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www.mbr-pwrc.usgs.gov/Infocenter/i1290id.html
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Mergus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mergus is the genus of the typical mergansers , fish-eating ducks in the seaduck subfamily (Merginae). The Hooded Merganser, often termed Mergus cucullatus , is not of this genus but closely re...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergus
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Red-breasted Merganser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Red-breasted Merganser ( Mergus serrator ) is a diving duck. Its breeding habitat is freshwater lakes and rivers across northern North America, Greenland, Europe and Asia. It nests in sheltere...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red-breasted_Merganser
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One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers are a family of diving waterfowl in Merginae, the seaduck subfamily of Anatidae. Ironically, only one of these seaducks is truly a seafarer, the others favoring rivers and lakes.
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10000birds.com/mergansers.htm
10000birds.com/mergansers.htm
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Description: The smallest of the three mergansers occurring in North America, the hooded merganser is also the only one restricted to North America. Male hooded mergansers have a large white crest surrounded by black.
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www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfowlgallery/61/index.html?po...
www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfowlgallery/61/index.html?poe=lhsnav
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Ride of the Mergansers: The Documentary - Official Website...
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