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Hooded Merganser(Lophodytes cucullatus)
Size:
Distribution
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Habitat:
- Freshwater marshes, wooded lakes, shallow ponds and rivers.
- Eats mostly fish but also some aquatic invertebrates.
Notes:
- Smaller than the other mergansers, but similar body and bill shape.
- Male has a large and showy fan-shaped, black and white crest on the head which may be raised or lowered.
- Male bufflehead is similar, but it is chubbier and has white sides.
