Common merganser
Mergus merganser
CommonPhoto: Frank Schulenburg · CC BY-SA 3.0
Birdcarnivore
The goosander is a big duck that thrives in wooded areas near rivers and lakes across Europe, Asia, and North America. It dives for fish and makes its home in tree hollows. In North America, people call it the common merganser, but in Europe and Asia, it goes by goosander.
- Catches fish by diving underwater.
- Nests inside holes in trees.
- Called 'goosander' in Eurasia, 'common merganser' in North America.
FreshwaterForestEuropeAsiaNorth America
Read more on WikipediaAt a glance
- Classification
- Bird
- Scientific name
- Mergus merganser
- Habitat
- Freshwater, Forest
- Regions in this directory
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Diet
- carnivore
- Relative size
- large
- IUCN Red List
- Least Concern (LC)
