Bird of the Week – Common Merganser
The Common Merganser breeds south of the Brooks Range in Alaska, in wooded areas along clearwater streams.
Common Merganser Drake and Hen
The female has that excellent spiky hairdo feather-do; the male is a bit plainer, but both have the bright orange bill that is a good field mark for these birds, although you want to be sure you don’t have a Red-breasted. They are one of the less common ducks in Alaska, but you can usually find them canoeing a clear water river. Most years there’s a pair on the West Fork of the Upper Chena River. This is a fish-eating duck; that long bill has a serrated inner edge that clamps firmly to a fish. These birds were photographed near Cordova in 2012.
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These are the mergansers the koch bros and wingnut mergansers want to keep poor and w/o representation in Washington,Duck City. That is why they only have canoes.
You can usually find these ducks canoeing a clear water river?
Good choice of watercraft, mergansers.
Most ducks like to pile all the kids into a big ol’ aluminum skiff with twin outboards, maybe 125s, and go roaring up the river — blaring punk rock music, trailing beer cans, and leaving behind a lingering trace of exhaust. Annoying.
But mergansers enjoy the rhythm of bright paddles dipping, the serenity of a canoe gliding on the current.
Cool haircuts, too.
Getting any………rain? 🙂
I’ll take that as a maybe?