#Red-breasted merganser

[besidethepath]

Red eyes and tangled hair, but it wasn't a hard night. The Red-breasted merganser looks like this.

[sugiichi]

Mergus serrator [ウミアイサ,Red-breasted Merganser]

珍しく陸に上がっていたパンクねーちゃん。 尾羽がぴょこんと上がってかわいいです。

[sofiaslifelists]

Red-breasted Merganser

(Mergus serrator)

[dansnaturepictures]

27/01/2024-Big Garden Birdwatch, Warblington and Hayling Island Oysterbeds

Photos taken in this set are of; the gorgeous Black Redstart which made the dream of the past two weeks when we first saw it come true by turning up when I was doing the Big Garden Birdwatch one of my best ever birds seen in this annual survey I love taking part in, my first Rock Pipit of the year at Hayling Island, beautiful views at Hayling Island in the ethereal winter sun with dramatic sky and sunset scenes and the Hayling Island bridge looking nice, one of my first Cattle Egrets of the year which it was amazing to see at Warblington this week such charismatic and beautiful birds, Roe Deers at Hayling Island it was great to see a Fox nearby and interacting with them too with one of the Roe Deer's facial expression interesting to see as the Fox went by and a Little Egret at Hayling Island.

In one of my best ever Big Garden Birdwatches this morning it really was extraordinary with my joint highest ever amount of species seen in one with ten it was also great to see Goldcrest which was a garden first, 2 Blackbirds, Blue Tit, 17 Starlings, 5 Collared Doves, 5 House Sparrows, 4 Goldfinches, 2 Woodpigeons and a Robin. Then this afternoon it was also great to see my first Great Northern Divers, Long-tailed Duck the stunning bird we saw here in December and Black-necked Grebes of the year at Hayling Island Oysterbeds. Other highlights at Hayling Island were Great Crested and Little Grebe, Avocet, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Greenshank, Grey Plover, Dunlin, Turnstone, Brent Geese, Shelducks, Shoveler, Red-breasted Mergansers, Goldeneye, Song Thrush, Great Tit, Buzzard, daisy, gorse, teasel seed heads, thistle and yellow-horned poppy leaves with Wren and Mediterranean Gull heard. Little Egret, Pheasant, Redwing and Robin were other highlights at Warblington. A golden winter day of purity and natural bliss.

[blogbirdfeather]

Red-breasted Merganser - Merganso-de-poupa (Mergus serrator)

Setúbal/Portugal (22/12/2023)

[Nikon D500; AF-S Nikkor 500mm F5,6E PF ED VR; 1/2500s; F6,3; 400 ISO]

[julianbashir]

song sparrow, american wigeon + canada goose, greater yellowlegs, and red-breasted merganser

marine park, new york

[north-american-duck-poll]

Round 1 match 4A

[capecodadventurepictures]

Red-breasted Merganser at the Cape Cod Canal 04/17/24

[johnjhalseth]

Gulf Breeze

Shoreline Park Pavilion

[piizunn]

ᓂᑐᐦᑕᒧᐏᐣ nitohtamowin, the act of listening (red breasted merganser)

2024

hand quilted scrap fabric and seed beads

as i worked on this piece at my home on the colonially occupied land of my native ancestors i thought about the words of palestinian poet marwan makhoul;

In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political

I must listen to the birds

and in order to hear the birds

the warplanes must be silent.

—

the colonizing genocidal power that continues to lay waste to my people, keeping us poor, unhoused, and sick is the one of the powers contributing to the genocide of palestinians. Indigenous liberation is intertwined globally, land back for me means land back for us all.

Métis (Otipemisiwak) demand a free Palestine.

[northernpintail]

I loved seeing these quirky-looking red-breasted mergs, they’re like the weird cousin to the common mergs

[besidethepath]

A few days ago I posted pictures of a male red-breasted merganser. Here follow pictures of a female. Below once again the male.

[ornithological]

male red-breasted merganser (mergus serrator), ireland

[birdblues]

Red-breasted Merganser

[dansnaturepictures]

11th June 2023: Cemlyn 

Photos taken in this set are of: 1. Arctic Tern, what a joy to get exquisite views of a great number of these iconic birds nesting today, always such a thrill to see. For only the third year ever I’ve seen this shiny and imposing species and it’s a very welcome 204th addition to my year list. A big part of my year so far. 2. Another tern species key to today which I’ve had a top year for, Sandwich Terns with a lovely chick. 3, and 7-10. Views at this attractive and varied coastal spot. 4. My first ever purple sandwort at the car park, a pretty one to see. 5. Yellow-tail moth caterpillar which was lovely to see, another first for me. 6. Mute Swan. 

Other highlights as we took in the smell and sound of a seabird colony that I adore as my favourite type of birds were of course Common Terns too in the colony and Black-headed Gulls and their bigger chicks that it was interesting to see swimming around the lagoon, Mediterranean Gull and a single Kittiwake. Black Guillemot, great views of male and female Red-breasted Merganser, Oystercatcher, Little Egret and Grey Heron, brilliant views of Sand Martins, Meadow Pipit and Red Admiral, Meadow Brown and Common Blue butterflies, Five-spot Burnet and Silver Y moths, Swollen-thighed beetles and briefly Common Lizard were other highlights here on a day we saw so much. It was an epic day of flowers too and other highlights here were wall pennywort, my first ever sea plantain, restharrow, wild cabbage, wild carrot, red and sea campion, herb-Robert, foxgloves, my first lady’s bedstraw of the year, thrift, bird’s-foot trefoil, honeysuckle, English stonecrop and amazing yellow-horned poppies at the shore which I was over the moon to see. I’d seen their leaves before but never the flower so this was a big moment today. A fantastic and precious time spent here on our much anticipated return after this wonderful wild site wowed us two years ago. 

[aneighborhoodnaturalist]

Red-breasted mergansers have serrated bills which aid in catching fish.

(Red-breasted merganser, male plumage)