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One of my least favorite components of bird names is the word “common,” because in some locations that species may indeed be uncommon, or even absent. However, for the duck known as the common ...

Some birds I would write about only in the spring or summer, because that’s the only time they are here. Some species winter here and breed elsewhere. The common merganser is one of those North Idaho ...

When is a duck not a duck? The answer is … when it is a merganser. So, what is a merganser? The mergansers are fish-eating ducks with many different adaptations that make them very different from ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- The world is swooning for a ducky day care in Minnesota after a wildlife photographer captured heartwarming photos of a female duck with dozens of ducklings in her care. Brent ...

In my last column, I posed a question that went something like this, “when is a duck not a duck.” The answer is when it is a merganser. Then I wrote about the common merganser, which is a member of ...

The hooded merganser is a specialty of J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge. It nests elsewhere in North Dakota, including the Turtle Mountains and Devils Lake, and it occurs along the Red River ...

CENTRAL PARK -- The New York City Parks Department is working to save a rare duck spotted in Central Park gagging on a piece of plastic. Bird watchers were excited to see the duck, known as the common ...

About one month ago, a wildlife photographer captured a mother duck who had her “hands full” with at least 50 ducklings following behind in Lake Bemidji. And that was just the start of this growing ...

Park Rangers are on the search for a female Common Merganser that has been in Central Park since at least mid-February and has plastic in its beak and around its neck. "I saw the duck while I was ...