This bird, when cooked in the ordinary way, is about as palatable as a stewed kerosene lamp wick,” Edward Howe Forbush said ...

There are two other species of merganser found in New England − common and hooded mergansers. What distinguishes red-breasted mergansers are their shaggy crests, super thin beaks and range.

I am not sure how that works out but it’s interesting to note. Unlike many of the other merganser species which nest in cavities, the red-breasted merganser nests on the ground in sheltered ...

The Department of Natural Resources confirmed highly pathogenic avian influenza, or bird flu, was found in a merganser recovered in early February along the Lake Michigan shoreline in Milwaukee County ...

Officials suspect that highly contagious bird flu is the cause of the illnesses found in the mergansers, a species of diving duck that winters in the Great Lakes region. Chicago Bird Collision ...