On returning about seven in the evening, at my request the steamer was tied up to the bank, and I put out in a small boat with a boatman, though no fish were stirring and the mergansers were sitting gorged in a row on the bank.
As each fish drove the little fish upwards a band of about thirty mergansers attacked them from above.
The mergansers constructed on the ledge their shallow nests encircled with a ring of down.
The mergansers have narrow, hooked, saw-toothed beaks quite unlike those of the sheldrakes, and their habits are entirely dissimilar.
I know of few prettier sights than the actions of a pair of Mergansers in some quiet, deep sea loch in early summer.
The Mergansers are a well-defined little group of fish-eating Ducks, forming the sub-family Merginae.
Six species of Mergansers are known to science, of which four are included in the British list--one as a rare visitor from North America.
Cormorants pursue their prey much in the same manner as Mergansers and Loons; the Anhingas are strictly territorial; the Pelicans combine the habits of both.
John saw several Ardea herodias[178] flying in pairs, also a pair of Red-breasted Mergansers that had glutted themselves with fish so that they were obliged to disgorge before they could fly off.
We have been on shore; no birds but about a hundred Eider Ducks and Red-breasted Mergansers in the inner bay, with their broods all affrighted as our boats approached.
Generally, common mergansers are opportunistic feeders with salmon taken extensively in some areas and suckers, chubs, and eels in others.
Hooded mergansers are more easily disturbed by man and far more sensitive to a decline in water quality than are wood ducks.
Food: The food habits of hooded mergansers are not well known, but are apparently more diversified than those of common mergansers.
After the lakes and still waters freeze the mergansers go to the rivers which are open in some places on the rapids all winter.
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