The elegant gray-bodied female Common Merganser have rich, cinnamon heads with a short crest.
The elegant gray-bodied female Common Merganser have rich, cinnamon heads with a short crest. This one is seen while resting with her chicks on a Lac Creux in northern Quebec Canada. The common merganser or goosander is a large duck of rivers and lakes in forested areas of Europe, northern and central Asia, and North America. The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird, and merganser is derived from mergus and anser, Latin for goose.
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Location: North Quebec, Canada
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