These birds winter most abundantly on coastal waters, including the golf of Mexico, and to lesser exten, the great lakes.
Their flight, strong and direct, is usually low over the water. They are difficult to to distinguish in flight from the common merganser.
Voice: Seldom heard.
Length: 23"
Weight: 2 ? lbs
Red Breasted Merganser
Red Breasted Merganser
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear
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Re: Red Breasted Merganser
I sure would like to shoot one or two of them!
I was drunk the day my momma got outta prison.
Re: Red Breasted Merganser
I'm not sure I have ever seen one... Never had an interest in bird watching.
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear
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I like's watchin'em, right before I pulls the trigger!
I was drunk the day my momma got outta prison.
Re: Red Breasted Merganser
Chit, I am at a lost - dont know enough about duck huntin to make a reply..
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear
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Never stopped anyone on here before! 

I was drunk the day my momma got outta prison.
Re: Red Breasted Merganser
Aint that the trueth
I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s ways of fang and claw or exposure and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow. – Fred Bear