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.
Female Common Merganser on icy blue water
Title: Female Common Merganser on icy blue water
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/12/2016
Bathing Common Merganser male in breeding plumage
Title: Bathing Common Merganser male in breeding plumage
Location: Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Box Elder County, Utah
Date: 2/9/2016
Mature Common Merganser drake
Title: Mature Common Merganser drake
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 2/13/2014
Wing-flapping Common Merganser on ice
Title: Wing-flapping Common Merganser on ice
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
First winter male Common Merganser on an icy pond
Title: First winter male Common Merganser on an icy pond
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
First winter Common Merganser male
Title: First winter Common Merganser male
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Common Merganser in a funny pose
Title: Common Merganser in a funny pose
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Common Merganser stretching on the shoreline
Title: Common Merganser stretching on the shoreline
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
1st winter Common Merganser male at Farmington Bay WMA
Title: 1st winter Common Merganser male at Farmington Bay WMA
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Common Merganser getting out of the water
Title: Common Merganser getting out of the water
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Common Merganser being aggressive towards a Pied-billed Grebe
Title: Common Merganser being aggressive towards a Pied-billed Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Common Merganser biting a Pied-billed Grebe
Title: Common Merganser biting a Pied-billed Grebe
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Common Merganser wing flap
Title: Common Merganser wing flap
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Common Merganser at Farmington Bay
Title: Common Merganser at Farmington Bay
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
First winter Common Merganser drake
Title: First winter Common Merganser drake
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 1/26/2014
Common Merganser – Christmas day 2010
Title: Common Merganser – Christmas day 2010
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/25/2010
Adult nonbreeding Common Merganser in Utah
Title: Adult nonbreeding Common Merganser in Utah
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/25/2010
Common Merganser slowly swimming by
Title: Common Merganser slowly swimming by
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/15/2010
Nonbreeding Common Merganser wing flapping
Title: Nonbreeding Common Merganser wing flapping
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/15/2010
Common Merganser keeping a watchful eye on me
Title: Common Merganser keeping a watchful eye on me
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/15/2010