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A widespread Reddit clip is giving viewers a small but delightful reminder that nature can be every bit as charming as a children's storybook. In the video, a female common merganser glides calmly ...

One of my least favorite components of bird names is the word “common,” because in some locations that species may indeed be uncommon, or even absent. However, for the duck known as the common ...

The Common Merganser is a large, cold-hardy, fish-eating duck that nests worldwide near large lakes and rivers in northern forested habitats. In North America, this species winters on large lakes, ...

Some birds I would write about only in the spring or summer, because that’s the only time they are here. Some species winter here and breed elsewhere. The common merganser is one of those North Idaho ...

CENTRAL PARK -- The New York City Parks Department is working to save a rare duck spotted in Central Park gagging on a piece of plastic. Bird watchers were excited to see the duck, known as the common ...

When is a duck not a duck? The answer is … when it is a merganser. So, what is a merganser? The mergansers are fish-eating ducks with many different adaptations that make them very different from ...

Red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator (synonym, Merganser serrator), Linnaeus, 1758, also known as the red-breasted sheldrake or as the fish duck, photographed in Bolivar Peninsula, in Galveston ...

Park Rangers are on the search for a female Common Merganser that has been in Central Park since at least mid-February and has plastic in its beak and around its neck. "I saw the duck while I was ...