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The female lays 6–17 (most often 8–12) white to yellowish eggs, and raises one brood in a season. The ducklings are taken by their mother on her back to rivers or lakes immediately after hatching, where they feed on freshwater invertebrates and small fish fry, fledging when 60–70 days old.
Breeding male plumages are fairly distinctive, but other plumages such as those born by females, immatures, and non-breeding males can make the two species hard to distinguish. The common merganser displays more contrast between the darker head and lighter breast and has a light chin patch not seen on the red-breasted. [7]
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.
The adult male has a black head and neck, white breast and underparts, and blackish mantle and wings, except for the white innerwings [verification needed]. The scaling is also black, while the tail is medium grey. The female has a buffish head and otherwise [verification needed] replaces the male's black with
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
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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 ...
Common merganser; H. Hooded merganser; R. Red-breasted merganser; S. Smew This page was last edited on 26 May 2009, at 21:48 (UTC). Text is available under the ...