If it looks like a duck …

Common Merganser male taken in central MN in the wild

Stan Tekiela
www.naturesmart.com

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 ducks, yet they are considered in the duck group. So, let’s take a look at the Common Merganser (Mergus merganser).

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