Hooded Merganser Images, Facts and Information:
Lophodytes cucullatus
- Hooded Mergansers are small ducks, males in breeding plumage have chestnut flanks, black and white crests, serrated black bills, black necks, white chests with a black stripe and bright yellow eyes. Females have a brown crest, grayish flanks and breasts, serrated bills that are dark brown on top and darker yellow below and dull yellow to brownish eyes. Hooded Mergansers are the smallest mergansers in North America.
- Hooded Mergansers breed from Northern British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest through central and eastern Canada, the Great Lakes, to New England and into the Ohio River Valley. The winter south to Baja, Mexico and the Gulf Coast.
- Hooded Mergansers are migratory.
- Hooded Mergansers preferred habitats include swamps, ponds, rivers, small forest pools and beaver ponds.
- Hooded Mergansers eat aquatic insects, fish, crustaceans, snails, frogs, and aquatic plants.
- Hooded Mergansers lay 6 to 18 eggs which hatch in 32 to 33 days. The female incubates and they are monogamous. They are cavity nesters.
- A group of ducks can be called a “raft”, “paddling”, “flush” or “brace” of ducks.
- People often call Hooded Mergansers by the name “Hoodie”.
- Hooded Mergansers can live to be more than 14 years of age.
I hope you enjoy viewing my Hooded Merganser photos.
Female Hooded Merganser shaking
Title: Female Hooded Merganser shaking
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/4/2020
Preening female Hooded Merganser
Title: Preening female Hooded Merganser
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/4/2020
Preening adult female Hooded Merganser
Title: Preening adult female Hooded Merganser
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/4/2020
Adult female Hooded Merganser on an icy pond
Title: Adult female Hooded Merganser on an icy pond
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/4/2020
Adult female Hooded Merganser and funky reflection
Title: Adult female Hooded Merganser and funky reflection
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/4/2020
Close hen Hooded Merganser at Glover Pond
Title: Close hen Hooded Merganser at Glover Pond
Location: Farmington Bay WMA, Davis County, Utah
Date: 12/4/2020
Drake Hooded Merganser portrait in evening light
Title: Drake Hooded Merganser portrait in evening light
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Drake Hooded Merganser with open bill
Title: Drake Hooded Merganser with open bill
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Smiling Hooded Merganser drake
Title: Smiling Hooded Merganser drake
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Hooded Merganser drake and splashing water
Title: Hooded Merganser drake and splashing water
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Drake Hooded Merganser splash landing
Title: Drake Hooded Merganser splash landing
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Drake Hooded Merganser tilting his head
Title: Drake Hooded Merganser tilting his head
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Hooded Merganser drake close up
Title: Hooded Merganser drake close up
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Hooded Merganser drake and reflection
Title: Hooded Merganser drake and reflection
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Drake Hooded Merganser in breeding plumage
Title: Drake Hooded Merganser in breeding plumage
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Portrait of an alert drake Hooded Merganser
Title: Portrait of an alert drake Hooded Merganser
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Hooded Merganser drake on calm water
Title: Hooded Merganser drake on calm water
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Drake Hooded Merganser portrait
Title: Drake Hooded Merganser portrait
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Urban drake Hooded Merganser up close
Title: Urban drake Hooded Merganser up close
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019
Hooded Merganser drake swimming by
Title: Hooded Merganser drake swimming by
Location: Salt Lake County, Utah
Date: 12/9/2019