Hooded
Merganser
(Lophodytescucullatus)
Photographed at
Flamingo Hotel Aviary, Las Vegas, NV Aug 2010
Hooded
mergansers are one of the most secretive ducks in North America. A small
fish-eating duck of wooded ponds, the Hooded Merganser nests in holes in trees.
It is frequently seen on shallow waters where its only waterfowl companion is
the Wood Duck.
Highly
weary of humans and their activity and will stay clear. The Hooded is the
smallest of the three species of mergansers. When in the water it rides so low
that often you can only see its head.
There
are two major populations - one that breeds in central B.C. and the other in
central Ontario and Quebec to the forest of Minnesota.
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