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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Potential bird sightings include gadwalls and buffleheads, dazzling ducks like the common goldeneye and the red-breasted merganser and tons of gulls, including the laughing gull and the ring-billed gull.
From New York Times ● Jun. 6, 2023
They are part of this spring’s baby bird boom at the zoo, along with a recent Orinoco goose hatchling and five merganser ducklings born this week.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
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
“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
"We sequenced the mitochondrial genome of these species and reconstructed the family tree of mergansers and when their ancestors arrived in the region," he says.
From Science Daily ● May 20, 2024
Female mergansers do a couple of interesting things that help explain how one duck could have 76 ducklings following her.
From NewsForKids.net ● May 7, 2024
As the trail passes Hidden Lake, you might catch sight of a raft of hooded mergansers — diving ducks whose collapsible black-and-white crest, or “hood,” evokes a goth mohawk.
From New York Times ● Dec. 18, 2020
A pair of hooded mergansers swam by with some Canada geese.
From Slate ● Feb. 11, 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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