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Definition of merganser in English: mergansernoun məːˈɡanzəməːˈɡansəmərˈɡænsər A fish-eating diving duck with a long, thin serrated and hooked bill. 秋沙鸭。亦称SAWBILL Genus Mergus, subfamily Merginae, family Anatidae: six species, including the conspicuously crested red-breasted merganser (M. serrator); common merganser (M. merganser), the male of which has a white body and dark green head Also called sawbill Example sentencesExamples - I just realized that our wood duck box had hooded mergansers in it and our bluebird boxes are full of swallows.
- A family of mergansers and a lone muskrat were spectators as the fledgling splashed about until his body was cooled and invigorated.
- Check your field guide to identify gadwalls, widgeons, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, ringnecks, and maybe a scalup or a canvasback.
- In the large cove before us she identified the scattered ducks: golden eyes, canvas backs, mergansers, immature herring gulls.
- The smallest merganser, the Smew of Eurasia sometimes visits America's northeastern shore.
- This duck is the smallest merganser commonly found in Washington.
- Last fall brought another disaster, with the corpses of thousands of loons, mergansers, other ducks, and gulls washing up on Lake Erie's shores.
- The mergansers were distant, but in the scope I could see the male's golden eye.
- This area affords excellent views of Burrard Inlet and rafts of offshore ducks. scoters, scaup, mergansers, goldeneye and buffleheads are all good possibilities.
- Hooded mergansers scuttled away as the Mackenzie type drift boat floated downstream.
- We drifted past a pair of mergansers, treading water in a streamside eddy.
- Other animals such as the great blue heron, American merganser, snapping turtles, otter and mink can prey upon black crappie young and sometimes adults as well.
- These ducks are diving, not just dunking, but really diving under the water head first, going completely under like a merganser or bufflehead, and not appearing to be surface feeding at all.
- As it grows in the river from an egg, it's bothered by brown trout, preyed on by goosanders (ducks with serrated bills) and cormorants as well as mergansers (another type of salmon-persecuting duck).
- There were painted mallards, wood ducks, and mergansers carved where possible in and on the armrests, in fact.
- In fall and winter, look for bald eagles, American dippers, mergansers, red-shafted Northern flickers, red-tailed hawks, and Townsend's solitaires.
- The female merganser, more subtle than her mate, may be slower to draw the eye, but is just as beautiful.
- The unofficial culling of pelican populations and, to a lesser extent, the merganser began in 1924.
- I was startled out of my dream state when a pair of mergansers flapped their way down along the creek's surface, turning skyward in front of me like training jets.
- Sheldrakes are today's mergansers, while the Wilson thrush, known today as the veery is only a migrant on the Cape but a resident of New England's woods.
OriginMid 17th century: modern Latin, from Latin mergus 'diver' (from mergere 'to dive') + anser 'goose'. Definition of merganser in US English: mergansernounmərˈɡænsərmərˈɡansər A fish-eating diving duck with a long, thin serrated and hooked bill. 秋沙鸭。亦称SAWBILL Genus Mergus, subfamily Merginae, family Anatidae: six species, including the conspicuously crested red-breasted merganser (M. serrator); common merganser (M. merganser), the male of which has a white body and dark green head Also called sawbill Example sentencesExamples - This duck is the smallest merganser commonly found in Washington.
- Last fall brought another disaster, with the corpses of thousands of loons, mergansers, other ducks, and gulls washing up on Lake Erie's shores.
- Check your field guide to identify gadwalls, widgeons, wood ducks, hooded mergansers, ringnecks, and maybe a scalup or a canvasback.
- We drifted past a pair of mergansers, treading water in a streamside eddy.
- Other animals such as the great blue heron, American merganser, snapping turtles, otter and mink can prey upon black crappie young and sometimes adults as well.
- There were painted mallards, wood ducks, and mergansers carved where possible in and on the armrests, in fact.
- As it grows in the river from an egg, it's bothered by brown trout, preyed on by goosanders (ducks with serrated bills) and cormorants as well as mergansers (another type of salmon-persecuting duck).
- I just realized that our wood duck box had hooded mergansers in it and our bluebird boxes are full of swallows.
- This area affords excellent views of Burrard Inlet and rafts of offshore ducks. scoters, scaup, mergansers, goldeneye and buffleheads are all good possibilities.
- The female merganser, more subtle than her mate, may be slower to draw the eye, but is just as beautiful.
- Hooded mergansers scuttled away as the Mackenzie type drift boat floated downstream.
- The mergansers were distant, but in the scope I could see the male's golden eye.
- These ducks are diving, not just dunking, but really diving under the water head first, going completely under like a merganser or bufflehead, and not appearing to be surface feeding at all.
- The smallest merganser, the Smew of Eurasia sometimes visits America's northeastern shore.
- In the large cove before us she identified the scattered ducks: golden eyes, canvas backs, mergansers, immature herring gulls.
- A family of mergansers and a lone muskrat were spectators as the fledgling splashed about until his body was cooled and invigorated.
- In fall and winter, look for bald eagles, American dippers, mergansers, red-shafted Northern flickers, red-tailed hawks, and Townsend's solitaires.
- I was startled out of my dream state when a pair of mergansers flapped their way down along the creek's surface, turning skyward in front of me like training jets.
- The unofficial culling of pelican populations and, to a lesser extent, the merganser began in 1924.
- Sheldrakes are today's mergansers, while the Wilson thrush, known today as the veery is only a migrant on the Cape but a resident of New England's woods.
OriginMid 17th century: modern Latin, from Latin mergus ‘diver’ (from mergere ‘to dive’) + anser ‘goose’. |