Common Merganser Identification - All About Birds
网页Common Mergansers are streamlined ducks that float gracefully down small rivers or shallow shorelines. The males are striking with clean white bodies, dark green heads, and a slender, serrated red bill. The elegant gray-bodied females have rich, cinnamon heads with a …
Common Merganser | Audubon Field Guide
网页Courtship displays of male include swimming very rapidly in circles near female; suddenly stretching neck upward, pointing bill straight up, and giving soft call. Nest site is near water, usually in large tree cavity; also in crevices in rock, in holes under tree roots or undercut banks, or in nest boxes.
Common merganser - Wikipedia
网页Females and males in "eclipse" (non-breeding plumage, July to October) are largely grey, with a reddish-brown head, white chin, and white secondary feathers on the wing. Juveniles (both sexes) are similar to adult females but also show a short black-edged white stripe between the eye and bill.
Here’s Why This Mama Merganser Has More Than 50 Ducklings
网页2018年7月13日 · Then, as he motored toward the boat slip, Cizek saw something remarkable: a female Common Merganser surrounded by more than 50 little ducklings. While Cizek watched, the little mergansers formed a long, orderly line behind their mom and began swimming away. The scene was too good to pass up.
Common Merganser - eBird
网页Breeding males have a dark green head and mostly white body with peachy blush on underparts. Females and immature males have rusty brown head and gray bodies with a cleanly demarcated white throat. Feeds in rivers, lakes, and large ponds by …
Common Merganser - All About Birds
网页The males are striking with clean white bodies, dark green heads, and a slender, serrated red bill. The elegant gray-bodied females have rich, cinnamon heads with a short crest. In summer, look for them leading ducklings from eddy to eddy along streams or standing on a flat rock in the middle of the current.
Common Merganser Photo Gallery - All About Birds
网页2013年1月26日 · Common Mergansers are streamlined ducks that float gracefully down small rivers or shallow shorelines. The males are striking with clean white bodies, dark green heads, and a slender, serrated red bill. The elegant gray-bodied females have rich, cinnamon heads with a short crest.
Common Merganser - BirdWeb
网页The female Common Merganser has a solid gray body with a reddish-brown head. She has a narrow, red, serrate bill and white chin-patch at the base of the lower mandible. The short crest of the female is often not obvious. The male in non-breeding plumage is similar to the female, with some white on his back.
Common Merganser (North American) - eBird
网页Learn about Common Merganser (North American): explore photos, sounds, and observations collected by birders around the world.
Common Merganser - ID, Facts, Diet, Habit & More | Birdzilla
网页2023年3月3日 · Female Common Mergansers have cinnamon-colored heads, white chests, and gray bodies. They’re the same size as male ducks. They have long bodies, pointed, thin wings, and narrow, straight bills. However, females have one thing that males don’t have, shaggy crests on the backs of their heads.