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Click on the thumbnail for high-resolution photos. Not particularly shy around here, but tough to approach, so this is the only good photograph I have right now.

 


Common merganser Mergus merganser
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Length: 18 inches Wingspan: 37 inches
Large, sleek diving duck
Long, pointed bill with serrated edges
Red bill is thick at base, tapering towards tip ...

Common Merganser
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Common Merganser
Relatives in same Genus
Red-breasted Merganser (M. serrator) ...

The Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) is a large diving duck which breeds across much of Canada and parts of the northern and Rocky Mountain areas of the United States.

Common Merganser: Large, sleek diving duck with black upperparts and white underparts. Head and upper neck are green-black with head crest usually not visible. Long, thin bill is bright red. Wings are black with extensive white patches.

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)
No photo of the Common Merganser available.

Common Mergansers are common in the Weaselhead/Glenmore area. As long as there is open water, there are always at least a few Common Mergansers around hunting for fish and amphibians.

Common Merganser
(Mergus merganser)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2011
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Once uncommon this bird has now become a common spring migrant.

Common Merganser
Mergus merganser Linnaeus
Status Common transient, uncommon in winter and summer. Breeds. It arrives on fresh water in numbers in late March or early April, when the ice breaks up.

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) is a local resident and widespread winter visitor in India.
Anseriformes
Apodiformes ...

Common Merganser
These diving ducks have spike-like bills with saw-edged mandibles that are well adapted for feeding on a variety of fish species.

Common Merganser
The Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) lives up to its name, in that it is probably the most common of the six or so merganser species in the world. They estimate that there about 1.

Common Merganser - 1 near Plaice Cove
Eared Grebe - 1 continues from Seal Rocks
Great Cormorant - 1 at Exeter WWTP, plus about 50 along the coast ...

Common Merganser Mergus merganser. Rare in winter and rare to occasional in spring and fall in primarily the Tennessee Valley region. Found on freshwater lakes and rivers. Low Conservation Concern.

The Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) ranges widely throughout the northern hemisphere.

Common Merganser (Mergus merganser)
Fulvous Whistling-duck (Dendrocygna bicolor)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons)
Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca) ...

Merganser Ducks: Common Merganser ... Hooded Merganser
Masked Ducks
Mexican Ducks (Puddle Ducks) ...

BUFF-BREASTED MERGANSER, OR GOOSANDER.
[Common Merganser.]
MERGUS MERGANSER, Linn.
[Mergus merganser.] ...

Abstract: Adult Elegant Terns (Sterna elegans), Roseate Terns (S. dougallii), many gulls (Laridae), several pelicans (Pelecanus spp.), the Common Merganser (Mergus merganser), and ptarmigans (Lagopus spp.) disp..[more]..

Mergus albellus - Smew
Mergus serrator - Red-breasted Merganser
Mergus merganser - Common Merganser (photo)
Mergus cucullatus - Hooded Merganser
Oxyura
Oxyura leucocephala - White-headed Duck ...

See also: Merganser, Duck, Scoter, Wigeon, Scaup