American merganser

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American merganser - common North American diving duck considered a variety of the European goosander

Mergus merganser americanus

genus Mergus, Mergus - mergansers

fish duck, merganser, sawbill, sheldrake - large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges

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Specifically, Huntsman postulated that the large parr of the Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), in their third year of river life, were vulnerable to predation by the belted kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) and especially by the American merganser (Mergus merganser) during years of low July-August rainfall.

Statistical assessment of Huntsman's 3-y salmon-rainfall correlation, and other potential correlations, in the Miramichi fishery, New Brunswick