The common merganser is a wide-ranging species in the ... which is called piscivorous. But catching fish underwater isn’t an easy task. Consider the fact that they need to swim fast enough ...

There are three merganser species common to North America. They are all fish eating divers well adapted for underwater pursuit. Each has a streamlined body and a long-narrow bill with serrated ...

The Common Merganser is a large ... Mergansers will probe sediments and underwater stones for prey, and when at the surface will swim forward with head underwater, searching for or chasing ...

The common (Mergus merganser) and red-breasted mergansers ... mergansers are designed for underwater swimming at the expense of walking on land, where if it becomes necessary, they are quite ...

had become wrapped around the merganser’s neck and narrow bill, and appeared to be preventing the duck from eating. Like many other duck species, common mergansers dive underwater to catch fish.

A large duck, known as a common merganser, was photographed with a plastic ring around its neck and lower beak, which prevents it from eating. The COMMON MERGANSER hen was not found on the Central ...

So many chicks!” said another. A post shared by Brent Cizek (@brentcizekphoto) on Jun 27, 2018 at 5:59pm PDT Cizek said it looked the like Common Merganser adopted “a few” ducklings.