Charles and Bob discuss the Hooded Merganser. It is a duck that has some very un-duck like qualities.
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Thanks to the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology for allowing us to display this excellent photo of a pair of hooded mergansers.
Thanks for reminding us to keep an eye out for this unducky duck. When I’ve seen them here in New England, they have indeed been lurking loners on the edges of larger more homogenois groups of mallards or canadian geese. Reminds me of the old Sesame Street game… one of these things is not like the others! Learned a lot today, thanks again.
Love the Sesame Street game comparison!