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Ducks and ice
Feb. 14th, 2014 07:09 pm
In the Children's Zoo Wetlands exhibit, in the small amount of water unfrozen, a female goldeneye.
Male hooded merganser, female bufflehead, female goldeneye.
In the Children's Zoo Wetlands exhibit, in the small amount of water unfrozen, a female goldeneye.
Male hooded merganser, female bufflehead, female goldeneye.
Snow Day Photos
Jan. 12th, 2011 07:24 pm
We stayed inside for a long while, but finally around 8:30 we went out to shovel. The first thing I noticed was our dying dogwood tree lost a couple branches. I think it's finished.
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Urban Nature Pictures 12/19
Dec. 20th, 2010 10:00 pm
Hooded mergansers. One good thing about winter is the appearance of migratory ducks on our urban waterways.
Winter walk in the Riverway
Jan. 27th, 2009 09:16 pm
Last Sunday we went for a walk in the Riverway together for the first time in weeks. I have to post the pictures now because it's all going to look different tomorrow all covered in snow.
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365 urban species. #008: Hooded Merganser
Jan. 8th, 2006 08:01 pm
Urban species #008: Hooded merganser Lophodytes cucullatus
Mergansers are a group of diving ducks characterized by a narrow, hooked, serrated-edged bill, and a crest that can be erected. The male hooded merganser's crest is especially distinctive. According to the Cornell Ornithology Lab, they are year-round residents in the northeast, but in Boston they are most conspicuous in winter, probably because freezing water concentrates them on urban rivers.
It is amusing to me that hooded mergansers are not among the 125 birds described in Birds of Boston, but northern pintails (much rarer, in my experience) are. Hooded mergansers are the only species of merganser found only on North America.
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