It was a juvenile hooded merganser! These are a common diving duck in Maine, but very exciting for me since it was the first one I have seen in New England. One of my favorite parts of ...

A large duck, known as a common merganser, was photographed with a plastic ring around its neck and lower beak, which prevents it from eating. The COMMON MERGANSER hen was not found on the Central ...

Brent Cizek's photos show the female common merganser duck with more than 50 of her small charges swimming across Lake Bemidji, about 200 miles north of Minneapolis. Cizek said he later spotted ...

Park Rangers are on the search for a female Common Merganser that has been in Central Park since at least mid-February and has plastic in its beak and around its neck. "I saw the duck while I was ...