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Common Merganser

Mergus merganser

Common Merganser
Tony Hisgett — originally posted to Flickr as Male Goosander (Wikimedia Commons) · CC-BY-2.0

Stor skallesluger er en omkring 66 centimeter stor fugl, der tilhører familien af egentlige andefugle. Den yngler i søer og floder i skovområder af Europa, det nordlige og centrale Asien samt Nordamerika.

Field marks

Large, elongated with a narrow, hooked red bill. The male white with a pink flush and a blackish-green head; the female has a chestnut head with a small crest and a sharp white cut-off to the grey breast.

Can be confused with

  • Red-breasted Merganser — Red-breasted Merganser is slimmer with a smaller head, a thinner bill and a big spiky crest; its female lacks the sharp cut-off between brown head and white breast.

Facts

Wingspan

93 cm

Conservation status

ikke truet

Family

ducks, geese and swans

Anatidae

Read more

This is a short overview for the quiz. For the full account, go to the sources:

  • Danmarks Fugle at the Danish Ornithological Society (in Danish)
  • Wikipedia (in Danish)The description above is from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).
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