15 January 09

You Say Goosander...

Common merganser, watercolor

Common merganser at the UC Davis Arboretum today at lunch.

Posted by at 06:35 PM in Bird of the Day | Link |

  1. We have both mergansers (mainly coastal and estuary) and gooseander (rivers, canals and some coastal). I can see it is a common merganser. Rounder head.


    — CdV    16. January 2009, 02:05    Link

  2. wow. I’ll need to look up goosander. Thanks CdV.

    Lovely to have you back commenting, btw.


    — Pica    16. January 2009, 08:34    Link

  3. You got the head colour spot on! On a side note, the literal translation of merganser from the Latin is ‘diving-goose’ – very apt!


    — rjhall    16. January 2009, 09:48    Link

  4. What a handsome fellow.


    — Susan Sonnen    16. January 2009, 13:10    Link

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