The hooded merganser is a specialty of J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge. It nests elsewhere in North Dakota, including the Turtle Mountains and Devils Lake, and it occurs along the Red River ...

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. One of the first ducks to arrive in the spring and the last to depart before ...

One of my least favorite components of bird names is the word “common,” because in some locations that species may indeed be uncommon, or even absent. However, for the duck known as the common ...

During a recent winter storm, we took a short drive along the Henry’s Fork at Mack’s Inn in Island Park. We could see lots of birds from the highway and wanted to see what we could add to Cathy’s ...

The best advice to find hooded mergansers used to be, get yourself to a pond in the woods. This season, you can just as well look in one of the Grand Forks retention ponds, part of the flood control ...

• 600,000 Sandhill cranes gather along the Platte River in central and western Nebraska. Visit www.rowesanctuary.com. • Flocks of common redpolls have descended into Boulder County from the frozen ...

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 ...

Q: I snapped a photo of a female hooded merganser leading her ducklings in the water. But here’s the strange part: They weren’t all the same species as their mother — some were wood ducks, some were ...