Common Merganser Images, Facts and Information:
Mergus merganser
- Common Mergansers are long-bodied diving ducks with long, thin reddish serrated bills, orange feet and legs and dark eyes. The males have greenish, black heads, white bodies and black backs in breeding plumage. Females have gray bodies with cinnamon colored heads with shaggy crests
- Common Mergansers are migratory.
- Common Mergansers are found throughout most of North America, during the breeding season they can be found in northern forested habitats that include lakes, ponds and rivers. During the winter they will be found further south on lakes, reservoirs and rivers.
- The diet of Common Mergansers includes fish, insects and aquatic plants.
- Common Mergansers lay 6 to 17 eggs which hatch in 28 to 35 days. The female incubates and they are monogamous.
- Common Merganser nicknames include “Fish Ducks”, “goosanders” and “Saw bill”.
- A group of ducks can be called a “raft”, “paddling”, “flush” or “brace” of ducks.
- Common Mergansers can live at least 13 years.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Common Merganser photos.
Common Merganser portrait with water droplets and a bow wave
Title: Common Merganser portrait with water droplets and a bow wave
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 4/27/2023
Hen Common Merganser bathing in icy water
Title: Hen Common Merganser bathing in icy water
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Hen Common Merganser flapping her wings next to an ice shelf
Title: Hen Common Merganser flapping her wings next to an ice shelf
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Male Common Merganser at Bear River MBR
Title: Male Common Merganser at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Bathing Common Merganser drake
Title: Bathing Common Merganser drake
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Drake Common Merganser at Bear River MBR
Title: Drake Common Merganser at Bear River MBR
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Common Goldeneye with a shad running from a Great Blue Heron
Title: Common Goldeneye with a shad running from a Great Blue Heron
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Common Goldeneye with a shad followed by a Common Merganser
Title: Common Goldeneye with a shad followed by a Common Merganser
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Common Merganser following a Common Goldeneye with a shad
Title: Common Merganser following a Common Goldeneye with a shad
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Common Goldeneye with a fish running away from a Common Merganser
Title: Common Goldeneye with a fish running away from a Common Merganser
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Common Merganser chasing a Common Goldeneye with a shad
Title: Common Merganser chasing a Common Goldeneye with a shad
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Common Merganser following a Common Goldeneye with a shad
Title: Common Merganser following a Common Goldeneye with a shad
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Drake Common Goldeneye slipping on ice with prey in his bill
Title: Drake Common Goldeneye slipping on ice with prey in his bill
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Common Goldeneye drake with a shad
Title: Common Goldeneye drake with a shad
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/12/2023
Immature Common Merganser shaking off water on the Bear River
Title: Immature Common Merganser shaking off water on the Bear River
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 3/14/2022
First winter Common Merganser floating by
Title: First winter Common Merganser floating by
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/29/2022
First winter Common Merganser on the Bear River
Title: First winter Common Merganser on the Bear River
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 1/29/2022
Great Egret watching Mallards and Hooded and Common Mergansers
Title: Great Egret watching Mallards and Hooded and Common Mergansers
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 12/21/2021 […]
Common Merganser drake about to dive
Title: Common Merganser drake about to dive
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 1/20/2021
Urban drake Common Merganser
Title: Urban drake Common Merganser
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 1/20/2021