Birdwatching - 3149🐦

🦉 The common merganser (North American) or goosander (Mergus merganser)

• Mergus (Greek) unidentified waterfowl mentioned in the texts of Pliny, Horace, and other ancient Roman authors
• merganser Greek: Mergus-Waterfowl, Anser-Goose

I don't come across these ducks very often. The only place where I regularly meet them is the big river that flows along the city. Every year in the spring you can see one pair there.

These ducks feed on fish, and not cheap ones, I looked in the reference book, they catch salmon, eel, grayling, roach, pike. In addition to fish, they eat various mollusks, aquatic insects. In search of food, the birds first scan the water with their head half-submerged in it, and then dive and grab the prey. Underwater, they move mainly with the help of their legs.