Common Mergansers – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

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

Images of Christmas Past – Happy Holidays

By Mia McPherson|December 25th, 2012|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Australia, Bald Eagles, Birds, Burnie, Common Mergansers, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Miscellaneous, Northern Harriers, Roseate Spoonbills, Tasmania|Tags: Bass Straight, bird photography, birding, Burnie, Christmas Day, Christmas Eve, Davis County, fog, Gray Ghost, Haliaeetus leucocephalus, Marsh hawk, Mergus merganser, nature, nature photography, Northern Harrier, Pinellas County, Platalea ajaja, sandman, snow man florida style, Tasmania, wildlife, wildlife photography|

Yesterday I took a stroll down memory lane, actually I looked for images I have taken either on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day in my files but in a way that is taking a stroll down memory lane.

Male Common Merganser in nonbreeding plumage

By Mia McPherson|November 27th, 2012|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Utah|Tags: Common Merganser, drake, male, marsh, mergansers, Mergus merganser, nonbreeding plumage, saw-bill, wetlands|

Last week I saw quite a few Common Mergansers at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge but I wasn't able to get close enough to them to get any quality images but they reminded me of images I had been able to take of Common Mergansers several years ago at Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area.

Things Are Getting Ducky In Utah!

By Mia McPherson|October 1st, 2011|Categories: Birds, Buffleheads, Cinnamon Teals, Common Goldeneyes, Common Mergansers, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Gadwalls, Greater Scaups, Mallards, Northern Pintails, Northern Shovelers, Red-breasted Mergansers, Ring-necked Ducks, Salt Lake Valley|Tags: Anas acuta, Anas platyrhynchos, autumn, Aythya collaris, Aythya marila, Bucephala albeola, Bucephala clangula, Bufflehead, Cinnamon Teal, Common Goldeneye, Common Merganser, Davis County, Gadwall, Greater Scaup, Mallard, Mareca strepera, Mergus merganser, Mergus serrator, Northern Pintail, Northern Shoveler, Red-breasted Merganser, Ring-necked Duck, Salt Lake County, Spatula clypeata, Spatula cyanoptera|

Another wonderful change that I have been seeing is that a variety of duck species have been arriving at the Great Salt Lake

Common and Red-breasted Mergansers

By Mia McPherson|March 20th, 2011|Categories: Bird ID, Common Mergansers, Davis County, Farmington Bay Waterfowl Management Area, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Red-breasted Mergansers, Utah|Tags: bill, bird ID, Common Merganser, crest, crests, diving ducks, duck, ducks, eye color, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, Mergus serrator, Red-breasted Merganser, serrated bill, water|

Mergansers are considered "diving ducks" and one of the things the three species of mergansers found in North America all have in common are their serrated bills.