The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is an arctic pinniped.

Hooded Seal (Cystophora cristata)

As many as two million seals are estimated to inhabit Greenland's coasts; species include the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) as well as the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus).

The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is an arctic pinniped found only in the central and western North Atlantic ranging from Svalbard in the east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the west.

Only one of those five birds may be a hooded merganser, however.

The daily bag limit for mergansers is five, only one of which may be a hooded merganser.

I have three black ducks, eight hooded mergansers.

Breeding populations of wood ducks and hooded mergansers can be found throughout the refuge.

Short bill distinguishes from equally rare Hooded Merganser (p. 67).

We saw a hooded merganser with russet feathers.

The hooded merganser is a sexually dimorphic species.

Mr. Foster, 60, likes to build houses for the wood ducks and hooded mergansers that nest on his land.

Along with the Smew and Hooded Merganser, they are therefore often known as "sawbills".

Almost the opposite solution is used by the Hooded Merganser which can bulge part of the lens through the iris when submerged.

The Hooded Merganser has a sawbill but is not classified as a typical merganser.

Other migrating birds include Canada geese, wood ducks, mallards, blue-winged teal, and hooded mergansers.

Hooded mergansers, mallards, blue-winged teal and Canada geese are other common resident nesting waterfowl.

Sharon Marino, the deputy refuge manager, said green-winged teals, hooded mergansers and northern pintails are seen at this time.

The Hooded Merganser, often termed Mergus cucullatus, is not of this genus but closely related.

Whatever the reason for this, scores of herring gulls, several kingfishers, four otters and occasional hooded mergansers dined on them for weeks.

In addition to loons, other water birds on the lake include the great blue heron, the great egret, the sandhill crane, and the hooded merganser.

The Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) is a small duck and is the only member of the genus Lophodytes.

Hope B. McCormick Swan Pond: Hooded mergansers, northern pintails, ruddy ducks, and trumpeter swans.

Ilex, Eastern elderberries, dogwood, crabapple and cattails are among the plants that have attracted ospreys, great blue herons, redwing blackbirds, hooded mergansers and wood ducks.

The Souris Valley Birding Club meets regularly at the park to watch hooded mergansers, wood ducks, Canada geese, kingfishers, Great blue herons and other birds.

More Ducks We looked at the ducks some more, thinking it might be fun to be one of them - a ruddy duck, maybe, or a hooded merganser - living here.

The basin provides nesting habitat for loons, hooded mergansers and other ducks, and among its 13 known rare species is the only viable population of spruce grouse in the entire watershed.

HOODED MERGANSER Mergus cucullatus.

Pilling gained international fame when in 1955 the International Wild Waterfowl Association (IWWA) recognized him as the first to breed the hooded merganser in captivity.

The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is an arctic pinniped.

Hooded Seal (Cystophora cristata)

As many as two million seals are estimated to inhabit Greenland's coasts; species include the hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) as well as the grey seal (Halichoerus grypus).

The hooded seal (Cystophora cristata) is an arctic pinniped found only in the central and western North Atlantic ranging from Svalbard in the east to the Gulf of St. Lawrence in the west.