Off North Point in Puget Sound on the north edge of Olympia on 22 October 2021, Erika and I saw several Hooded Merganser. As I took photos of this male swimming by with its beak somewhat open, I hoped that I would be able to blog about mergansers' odd, serranted bills. You can ALMOST see these tooth-like structures, lacking in other ducks. Some ornithologists argue against placing Hooded Mergansers in a separate genus from the other mergansers. In any event, all mergansers are closely related to goldeneyes.
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