merganser: see duck duck, common name for wild and domestic waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and swans. It is hunted and bred for its meat, eggs, and feathers. Strictly speaking, duck refers to the female and drake to the male.
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merganser

or fish duck

Any species of the diving duck genus Mergus. Essentially freshwater birds, they are classified as a sea duck (tribe Mergini). Mergansers have a long body and a narrow, serrated, hooked bill for catching fish. The males of all but the common merganser, or goosander (M. merganser), are crested. The common merganser, the hooded merganser (M. cucullatus), the red-breasted merganser (M. serrator), and the smew (M. albellus), a small, compact merganser with a short bill, live in northern regions; the only southern species is the Brazilian merganser (M. octosetaceus). Mergansers are called trash ducks because their flesh is rank. See also shelduck.

merganser

any of several typically crested large marine diving ducks of the genus Mergus, having a long slender hooked bill with serrated edges

merganser [mər′gan·sər]

(vertebrate zoology)

Any of several species of diving water fowl composing a distinct subfamily of Anatidae and characterized by a serrate bill adapted for catching fish.

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No references found	Outer Cape beaches (Coast Guard) in winter -Bring a spotting scope and look out to sea to find scoters, common eiders, red-breasted mergansers and plunge-diving gannets. Searching the tide; Author's work aims at kindling new awe by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) The area is home to Red-breasted Mergansers, Hooded Grebes, Lesser Scaup, Red-necked Grebes, Gadwalls, Common Loons, oublecrested Cormorant, the Bald Eagle, and the D Osprey. Guntersville State Park in Northeast Alabama! by Johnny Chandler / Travel, recreation and leisure community Pochard and red-breasted mergansers showed off in the sun. bird NOTES by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)	red stele Red Steppe Cattle red stripe Red Tambov Cattle red tape red tetrazolium red thermit red thread red tide Red Top Mountain State Park & Lodge Red Turbans Red Turbans Rebellion of 1351–68 Red Waistcoat Festival red water red white-dwarf star Red Willow County Red Willow Reservoir State Recreation Area Red Wing red wire red zinc ore red zone Red, White and Blue Red-Backed Mice Red-backed Shrike Red-Billed Chough red-breasted merganser Red-Breasted Rose Finch red-figure pottery Red-Hardness Red-Headed League, the Red-Shortness Red-Spotted Bluethroat red-tape operation Red-Toothed Shrews Red-Yellow Podzolic soil redact Redaction Redan redbed redbird Redbreast redbrick Redbridge redbud Redcar and Cleveland Redcliffe Plantation State Historic Site redcoat Redcode redcurrant Redding Redding, J. Saunders	Red-belly Black Snake red-berried red-berried elder red-berried elder red-berried elder red-berry Red-billed Chough Red-billed Chough red-billed choughs red-billed choughs red-billed queleas red-billed queleas Red-black tree red-blanket red-blanket red-blanket red-blanket red-blind red-blindness Red-blood cell Red-blood cell Red-blood cell Red-blood corpuscles Red-blood corpuscles Red-blood corpuscles red-blooded red-blooded Red-Blooded All-American Boy Red-Blooded American Male red-bloodedness red-breasted merganser red-breasted mergansers red-breasted mergansers red-breasted nuthatch Red-Breasted Rose Finch red-breasted sapsucker red-breasted snipe Red-breasted Wryneck Red-breasted Wryneck Red-breasted Wryneck red-brick red-brown red-card red-carded red-carding red-cards red-carpet red-carpet treatment red-chested cuckoos Red-chested Swallow Red-chested Swallow Red-Chip Red-Chips red-coated Red-cockaded Woodpecker Red-cotton tree Red-cotton tree Red-crested poachard red-dog red-dogged

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Outer Cape beaches (Coast Guard) in winter -Bring a spotting scope and look out to sea to find scoters, common eiders, red-breasted mergansers and plunge-diving gannets.

Searching the tide; Author's work aims at kindling new awe by Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA)

The area is home to Red-breasted Mergansers, Hooded Grebes, Lesser Scaup, Red-necked Grebes, Gadwalls, Common Loons, oublecrested Cormorant, the Bald Eagle, and the D Osprey.

Guntersville State Park in Northeast Alabama! by Johnny Chandler / Travel, recreation and leisure community

Pochard and red-breasted mergansers showed off in the sun.

bird NOTES by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

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