Red-breasted Merganser
Mergus serrator
Summary 2
The red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) is a diving duck, one of the sawbills. The genus name is a Latin word used by Pliny and other Roman authors to refer to an unspecified waterbird, and serrator is a sawyer from Latin serra, "saw".
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More Info
- iNaturalist.ca taxon page
- All About Birds-- The Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- Animal Diversity Web
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- BOLD Systems BIN search
- CalPhotos
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)
- Maryland Biodiversity Project
- NatureServe Explorer 2.0
- NBN Atlas
- VertNet
- Xeno-canto
- 日本のレッドデータ検索システム
