common merganser
goosander
mergus merganser latin

It eats fish, but its favorite meal is the common merganser, a duck.

We saw a pair of red-tailed hawks and a few common mergansers.

Bird species found in the area include the common black hawk, wood duck, and common merganser.

Wood ducks, mallards, hooded and common mergansers also nest in the area.

Except for two common mergansers patrolling a shallow riffle downstream, not a soul was in sight.

Sawbill is a nickname of a Common Merganser Duck.

Undaunted by the high, cold water, two common mergansers - swift fish-eating diving ducks - flew low, just above the water.

Water birds include the loon, great blue heron, common merganser, spotted sandpiper, and herring gull.

In most places, the Common Merganser is as much a salt-water as a fresh-water frequenter.

A few specialized species such as the smew, Common Merganser, and the mergansers are adapted to catch and swallow large fish.

The area is home to ospreys, soft-shelled turtles, great blue herons, kingfishers, common mergansers, mallards, and beavers.

H. greineri - wood ducks (Aix sponsa), common mergansers (Mergus merganser)

From November through March large numbers of waterfowl, especially canvasback, redhead, lesser scaup, common goldeneye and common merganser are all found in the nearby waters.

Tree holes are important habitats for many animals, such as Ceratopogonidae, Chironomidae, the Common Merganser, toucans, woodpeckers, and bluebirds.

The extensive wetlands and marshes provide ideal habitat for waterfowl, such as common mergansers, American black ducks, common goldeneye and common loons.

When not grappling shad from the river with their strong talons, eagles snare big white snow geese or common mergansers, which the eagles prefer over other ducks because of their flight patterns.

The lake is an important stop-over for many bird species, including Tufted Duck, Common Goldeneye, and Common Merganser; and, more rarely, Slavonian Grebe, and Smew.

Inland, freshwater-dependent birds such as the Common Merganser, osprey, Red-shouldered Hawk, Great Blue Heron, and Steller's Jay are a few of the bird species that have been documented.

During the winter, Great-crested and Black-necked grebes, Red-crested Pochards, Mallard, Common Teal (Anas crecca), and Common Merganser are common.

In addition to trumpeter swans, another 30 species of waterfowl have been recorded including blue-winged teal, common merganser, American wigeon and the colorful but reclusive harlequin duck which is occasionally spotted in Cascade Canyon.

Naturalists from the Connecticut Audubon Society, he organizers of the cruise, will be aboard to talk about and identify not only the eagles but other wintering waterfowl including common mergansers, great cormorants and a variety of ducks.

In its winter quarters, the Scaly-sided Merganser might compete with other Merginae with which it shares its habitat then, e.g. Common Mergansers (M. merganser) and Common Goldeneyes (Bucephala clangula).

Common bird species include migrant waterfowl, coot, Great-crested and Black-necked grebes, Red-crested Pochard, Mallard, Common Teal, Common Merganser, Himalayan Snowcock and Chukar Partridge.

All birds common to Stockholm, such as Mallard, Eurasian Coot, Tufted Duck, and Great Crested Grebe, are found by the lake, while Heron regularly visits the lake and Common Merganser fish here during winters.

Regular migrants from their breeding grounds north of Usedom that may be seen in shallow water are the Tufted Duck, Scaup, Eider Duck, Goldeneye, Long-tailed Duck, Red-breasted Merganser und Common Merganser.

The goosander, recently arrived as a breeding species in Ireland, can sometimes be seen here.

Also, of note is the fish-eating bird the goosander which feeds in the river.

Old hollow pine trees provide good nesting places for the goldeneye and goosander.

A pair of golden eye and a pair of goosander.

Appreciably smaller than Goosander; see above.

The most common aquatic birds are the Goosander and Tufted Duck.

The rare Goosander can be seen on the Slaney at Kildavin.

It was one of the first sites in the country used by gadwall for breeding, and also has a population of goosander in the winter.

Morel took the lead on the turn into the straight and won by one and a half lengths from Goosander, with Miranda in third place.

Goosander (rivers and streams)

The reservoirs carry nationally important wintering populations of tufted ducks, pochard, goosander and goldeneye.

Sailor was a tall, leggy chestnut horse sired by Scud out of the mare Goosander.

Goosander (Mergus merganser)

This species has been recorded in each month from November to March, but as with Goosander most are seen in January and February.

Among the species that attract birdwatchers to the hide are the goosander, lapwings, common snipe, little ringed plover and whitethroat.

From September, smaller ducks fly in: tufted, pochard, goldeneye, mallard, wigeon, mergansers, goosander and smew.

Ridden by Bill Clift, she was made the 3/1 favourite ahead of Miranda and Goosander who both started at odds of 5/1.

Amongst the most recorded are Tufted Duck, Goldeneye, Goosander and Common Teal.

Macgillivray is similarly relied upon for accounts of the Pink-footed Goose and the Goosander as far as the Hebrides are concerned.

Osprey, Common Sandpiper, Ruff, Redshank, Black Stork, Goosander and Dunlin.

The site has a rich faunal assemblage and the woodland and associated stretch of the river is home to a variety of birds, including dipper and goosander.

Tufted Duck, Goldeneye, Wigeon, Teal and possibly Goosander with sometimes Smew and Scaup.

The river Slaney at KIldavin is one of the best places in Ireland to see the rare Goosander : flocks of up to 14 have been seen here.

Birds found in the area include the grey heron, cormorant, and kingfisher, the mallard and goosander, and other animals include the red fox, brown rat and otters.

For example, the Bittern Reed warbler Greylag Goose, Goosander, Smew White-tailed Eagle and Osprey occur here.

Goosander (Mergus merganser)

H. greineri - wood ducks (Aix sponsa), common mergansers (Mergus merganser)

They are also a food source for birds such as Belted Kingfisher Megaceryle alcyon, Mergansers Mergus merganser, and herons.