Hooded Merganser

by Elizabeth Budd

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Hooded Merganser

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Elizabeth Budd

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Photograph - Photograph

Description

The hooded merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus) is a species of small duck. The bird is striking in appearance; both sexes have crests that they can raise or lower, and the breeding plumage of the male is handsomely patterned and coloured. The hooded merganser has a sawbill but is not classified as a typical merganser.

Hooded mergansers are the second smallest species of merganser, with only the smew of Europe and Asia being smaller, and it also is the only merganser whose native habitat is restricted to North America.

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January 14th, 2016

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