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  • Red-breasted Merganser, 1 of 6
    Photo 1 of 6

    (c) Robin Gwen Agarwal, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Lucas liu, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) brian stahls, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) Светлана Стрижова, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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    (c) samzhang, all rights reserved

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    Photo 6 of 6

    (c) Greg Lasley, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

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Red-breasted Merganser

Mergus serrator

Worldwide
58,829 observations
Group
Birds

About

The red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) is a diving duck, one of the sawbills. The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird, and serrator is a sawyer from Latin serra, "saw".

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