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merganser /məːˈɡanzə / /məːˈɡansə/nounA fish-eating diving duck with a long, thin serrated and hooked bill. Also called sawbill.- Genus Mergus, family Anatidae: six species.
Check your field guide to identify gadwalls, widgeons, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, ringnecks, and maybe a scalup or a canvasback....- This area affords excellent views of Burrard Inlet and rafts of offshore ducks. scoters, scaup, mergansers, goldeneye and buffleheads are all good possibilities.
- In the large cove before us she identified the scattered ducks: golden eyes, canvas backs, mergansers, immature herring gulls.
OriginMid 17th century: modern Latin, from Latin mergus 'diver' (from mergere 'to dive') + anser 'goose'. |