How to Use merganser in a Sentence
merganser
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Lake Davidson gave up six red-breasted mergansers and a greater scaup, both nice ducks to find.
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Taylor Piephoff,
charlotteobserver,
11 Jan. 2018
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But 50 yards to the north, mergansers and goldeneyes dove for fish in an open circle of water.
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Paul A. Smith,
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
13 Jan. 2018
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Newly arrived wild ducks—buffleheads and hooded mergansers—circle in small groups near the shore.
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Sylvia Poggioli,
The New York Review of Books,
29 Mar. 2020
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Warblers and hooded mergansers congregate here because the terrain is too rough for most everybody else.
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The Editors,
Outside Online,
15 Apr. 2019
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Hooded mergansers, startled by human presence, waltz across the water before flying off.
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Jennifer Berney,
Outside Online,
7 Apr. 2023
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Common and red-breasted mergansers, also known as fish ducks, do indeed eat a wide variety of fish, including salmon smolts, trout, minnows, shad, and game fish.
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M.d. Johnson,
Field & Stream,
2 Nov. 2023
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Sandra Critelli, a birder and photographer who saw the merganser, tells Gothamist that the duck was active, but unable to close its beak.
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Brigit Katz,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Feb. 2020
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Today, a mated pair of mergansers share this bay of the fjord with splashing arctic terns, recently arrived from waters off Antarctica.
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Anchorage Daily News,
8 June 2019
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Many predators such as mountain lions, coyotes and bobcats are included in the proposals alongside game species such as mule deer, antelope and several bird species, including snipe, gallinule and merganser.
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Debra Utacia Krol,
azcentral,
11 Apr. 2020
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