Common Merganser
Mergus merganser
Common Merganser are found in the part of the rive near the Nature Nuts wading area 5
The Common Merganser (North American) or Goosander (Eurasian) (Mergus merganser) is a large duck, of rivers and lakes of forested areas of Europe, northern and central Asia, and North America. It eats fish and nests in holes in trees. John James Audubon called this bird the "Buff-breasted Merganser" in his book The Birds of America.
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- (c) Luciano Giussani, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://www.flickr.com/photos/8892435@N07/2262790192
- (c) Denis Collette, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-ND), https://www.flickr.com/photos/deniscollette/1466757815/
- (c) Arthur Chapman, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/arthur_chapman/9063947406/
- (c) Marko Kivelä, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), https://www.flickr.com/photos/marko_k/538910166/
- Adapted by prattcenter from a work by (c) Wikipedia, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mergus_merganser
