merganser
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of merganser
1745–55; < New Latin, equivalent to Latin merg ( us ) diver, a kind of water bird + ānser goose
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After surging out of the rapid, we passed a flock of beautiful merganser ducks and Canada geese balancing on one foot.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
Common merganser: The males have green heads like mallards while the females are redheads.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 19, 2016
There were also 150 long-tailed ducks, 300 scoters, 40 goldeneye, 15 buffleheads, nine mallards, one red-breasted merganser, two kinds of gulls, 20 Canada geese, and a raft of maybe 900 scaups.
From Slate ● Jan. 27, 2016
You’d have to search the archives of Surrealism to find a creature as imaginative looking as Audubon’s male hooded merganser in breeding plumage, with its miter-shaped head and yellow-dot eyes.
From New York Times ● Mar. 27, 2014
“That’s the merganser we found at Mill Pond,” I said, pointing to the duck with a Mohawk.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
A new University of Otago-led study has uncovered the origins of a mysterious lineage of mergansers in Aotearoa New Zealand.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024
One unusual thing that mother mergansers do is to lay some of their eggs in the nests of other birds.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
A pair of hooded mergansers swam by with some Canada geese.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 2019
Then there was the time he tried to prepare mergansers.
From New York Times ● Feb. 5, 2019
It might have implied that white sharks were more important than mergansers or spotted salamanders, but to me they were.
From "The Line Tender" by Kate Allen
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