#mergansers

[spinus-pinus]

Hooded Merganser Lophodytes cucullatus

1/26/2024 Orange County, California

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Simplified bird #162 - hooded merganser

( requested by @battlinghurricanes )

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Hooded Mergansers. 10° F, feels like 3° F and Antarctica. January 21, 2026. Cove Island Park, Stamford, CT (@dkct25)

[uwmspeccoll]

A Mueller-engraved Feathursday

Here are some wood-engraved birds by Spokane, Washington printer and printmaker W. Gale Mueller (1927-2018) from his Forty Years of Birds ‘n Blocks, printed from the original blocks at his Millstone Press in 2009 in an edition of 53 copies. From 1969 to 2009, Mueller and his wife Bonnie sent holiday cards with Gale’s original bird prints using several relief print processes. He came to prefer wood engraving after 1986. Today we show engravings from 1996-2003. For those who want to know more about these birds, here you go:

Common Raven (Corvus corax)

Black-capped Chickadee (Poecile atricapillus)

Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)

Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus)

Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)

Our copy of this book is a gift from our friend Tony Drehfal.

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Common Merganser (Mergus merganser). Family Anatidae, order Anseriformes.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA. February 2021.

[na-bird-of-the-day]

BOTD: Hooded Merganser

Photo: Bill B

"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 swamps and wooded ponds where it may be overlooked. A cavity nester along wooded waterways in the temperate parts of North America, it has probably benefitted by taking advantage of nest boxes put out for Wood Ducks."

- Audubon Field Guide

[minister-erik]

COMMON MERGANSER (mergus merganser) - Composition Saturday

© Erik McGregor - [email protected] - 917-225-8963

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Common Merganser WWT Sussex by Adam Swaine Via Flickr: The Common Merganser, often called the Goosander in Europe, is the largest of the sawbilled ducks. All are specialist fish eaters. Common Mergansers are found throughout the northern hemisphere, and in winter can be seen in large flocks, sometimes of thousands of birds. In Europe they nest as far south as the Swiss lakes, but they are principally a bird of the northern forests, favouring fast-flowing rivers for feeding, roosting on nearby lakes at night.