This fish-eating duck is the typical merganser of freshwater lakes. Its flocks are usually small, but these may combine into big concentrations sometimes at large reservoirs. Common Mergansers living ...

Mergansers are our only ducks that specialize in eating fish. The Hooded is the smallest of our three native merganser species, and often seems to be the least numerous, as it tends to live around ...

It is most commonly spotted around the coast in winter. The red-breasted merganser is a medium-sized duck and a member of a group called the 'sawbills' because of their long, narrow bills with ...