merganser in English

noun
1
a fish-eating diving duck with a long, thin serrated and hooked bill.
Check your field guide to identify gadwalls, widgeons, wood ducks, hooded mergansers , ringnecks, and maybe a scalup or a canvasback.
noun
    sheldrakesawbill

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1. We postulate that the protective benefit for merganser nests in tern colonies accounts for the evolution of the nesting association.

2. Coot There are also many ducks that people say are inedible, like the spoon bill and the merganser, mostly because of they are fish eating ducks but even those are more revered than the lowly Coot

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4. Fundulus diaphanus is a forage fish for larger species like Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), brook trout (Salvelinus fontinalis) and American eels (Anguilla rostrata) and is also preyed upon by Belted Kingfishers (Megaceryle alcyon) and American Mergansers (Mergus merganser) (White 1953,1957; Scott and Crossman 1973).