Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator
The Red-breasted Merganser is found in North America, ...
Red-breasted merganser Mergus serrator
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Length: 16 inches Wingspan: 33 inches
Large, sleek diving duck
Long, pointed bill with serrated edges
Thin, red bill seems evenly tapered throughout length ...
Red-breasted Merganser: Medium-sized diving duck with black upperparts, gray sides, rust-brown breast, and white belly. Head, double crests, and neck are green; neck ring is white. Bill is long, thin, and bright orange.
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The Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) breeds across much of Canada as well as some areas of the northern United States. The species winters in many of the southern states as well as Mexico.
Red-breasted Merganser
(Mergus serrator)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Red-breasted Merganser
Mergus serrator Linnaeus
Status Common transient, fairly common in summer and winter. Breeds. This is one of the most common ducks of our coastal waters and estuaries in autumn, winter and spring.
RED-BREASTED MERGANSER.
[Red-breasted Merganser.]
MERGUS SERRATOR, Linn.
[Mergus serrator.] ...
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Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) is the marine merganser. It is also a bold world traveler, plying icy waters where usually only scoters and eiders dare to tread.
Red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)
Collared plover (Charadrius collaris)
Common sandpiper (Actitis hypoleucos)
Avicennia (Avicennia rumphiana)
Common tern (Sterna hirundo)
Four-spot midget (Mortonagrion hirosei) ...
Red-breasted Merganser Mergus serrator. Common in winter, uncommon in spring and fall, and occasional in summer in Gulf Coast region. In Tennessee Valley region, fairly common in winter and fall, uncommon in spring, and occasional in summer.
Red-breasted Merganser
Summer Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Northern Mockingbird
Summer Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Northern Gannet (30 ads.) Great Cormorant (7) Double-crested Cormorant (8) Common Eider (83) Harlequin Duck (13) Surf Scoter (10) White-winged Scoter (5) Black Scoter (36) Oldsquaw (224) Red-breasted Merganser (6) Merlin (1) Purple Sandpiper (7) ...
While Red-breasted Mergansers winter here in coastal waters, the Common Merganser is more at home on lakes and large streams.
The two species most similar to the Hooded Merganser are the Common Merganser and the Red-breasted Merganser. The males of both of these species lack the Hooded Merganser's black head with large white patch.
The following merganser is a different genus from the common and red-breasted mergansers.
Merganser, Hooded Lophodytes cucullatus Found: North America
Photographed by: 1) Rusty Dodson 2, 3, 4, 8) Dick Daniels at Sylvan Heights 5, 6, 7) Dick ...
The Hooded Merganser sometimes breeds in Florida, nesting in a high tree cavity near water. It may use a nest box. The more common Red-breasted Merganser is usually found in coastal areas but has also established in scattered inland areas.
Lesser Scaup, Aythya affinis
Bufflehead, Bucephala albeola (A)
Hooded Merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus (A)
Red-breasted Merganser, Mergus serrator (A)
Masked Duck, Nomonyx dominica
Ruddy Duck, Oxyura jamaicensis ...
They include the goosander and the smaller red-breasted merganser, both circumpolar in distribution, and the North American hooded merganser, similar to the Old World smew.
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, Goldeneye, Common Goldeneye
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