With its punk-rock crest and piercing yellow eyes, this small diving duck turns heads on lakes and ponds across North America. The Hooded Merganser is a striking duck with a distinctive, fan-shaped ...

This streamlined diving duck, with its distinctive saw-toothed bill, is a master fisher in lakes and rivers across the Northern Hemisphere. The Common Merganser is a large, streamlined duck with a ...

H5N1 bird flu — have been found along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago area, prompting warnings from area health ...

For the first time in South Bengal, two rare birds—a Common Merganser from North America and a West Himalayan Bush Warbler— ...

Sawbills or Common Mergansers are America’s largest mergansers, a type of diving duck. The sawbill nickname comes from the jagged edge of their long, thin bill. These serrations help them hold onto ...

KENOSHA, Wis. — Since last Thursday, seven red-breasted mergansers were admitted to the Wisconsin Humane Society Wildlife Rehabilitation Center with symptoms consistent with the bird flu. The Centers ...

Wildlife professionals and advocates are grappling with an avian influenza outbreak that seems to be growing more virulent ...

Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago and into the northern suburbs. Officials suspect that highly ...

The red-breasted merganser is a species of diving duck that ... It’s always a wonderful thing to see in Chicago, the habitat that we provide for these birds.” In its Facebook post Sunday, ...