When is a duck not a duck? The answer is … when it is a merganser. So, what is a merganser? The mergansers are fish-eating ducks with many different adaptations that make them very different from ...

In my last column, I posed a question that went something like this, “when is a duck not a duck.” The answer is when it is a merganser. Then I wrote about the common merganser, which is a member of ...

That's common eider, common merganser, common tern, common nighthawk, common yellowthroat etc. There are other American birds that had also been designated as common, but in recent years have changed, ...

CENTRAL PARK -- The New York City Parks Department is working to save a rare duck spotted in Central Park gagging on a piece of plastic. Bird watchers were excited to see the duck, known as the common ...

Michigan’s magnificent birds are the stars of this nature photography calendar that’s co-branded with the Michigan Audubon for the first time. A common merganser hen landing on the Rapid River with a ...

It was a rainy Sunday morning at the beginning of March and I was suffering from cabin fever. It hasn’t been a particularly cold winter, but I had been cooped up nonetheless. Saturday had gone by ...

Q: An odd thing is happening on a nearby pond: A hooded merganser seems to think a mallard hen is his mate and aggressively chases off any mallard males, even diving underwater like a submarine to ...

BEMIDJI, Minn. -- The world is swooning for a ducky day care in Minnesota after a wildlife photographer captured heartwarming photos of a female duck with dozens of ducklings in her care. Brent ...