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The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is a large sea duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, Asia, and North America. The common merganser eats mainly fish.
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Female at Walsrode Bird Park, Germany. Although the hooded merganser is a common species in captivity in Europe and most specimens recorded in the wild are regarded as escapes, or feral animals, a small number of birds have been regarded as genuinely wild vagrants.
Common merganser; M. Chatham Island merganser; R. Red-breasted merganser; S. Scaly-sided merganser This page was last edited on 3 September 2023, at 19:22 ...
The common merganser (Mergus merganser) and red-breasted merganser (M. serrator) have broad ranges in the northern hemisphere. The Brazilian merganser (M. octosetaceus) is a South American duck, and one of the six most threatened waterfowl in the world, with possibly fewer than 250 birds in the
The red-breasted merganser was formally described in 1758 by the Swedish naturalist Carl Linnaeus in the tenth edition of his Systema Naturae under the current binomial name Mergus serrator. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The genus name Mergus is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified water bird .
Common scoter, Melanitta nigra; Black scoter, Melanitta americana (A) (near-threatened) Long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis (vulnerable) Bufflehead, Bucephala albeola (A) Common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula; Smew, Mergellus albellus; Hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus (A) Common merganser, Mergus merganser; Red-breasted merganser, Mergus ...