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Red-breasted Merganser at Rowardennan, Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond East
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) at SCENE, Rowardennan, Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve. The Merganser has a relatively thin beak compared to a Goosander, and in the female, the plumage on its neck merges from the brown head to a grey breast.
11 May 2011
Goosander pair and Red-breasted Merganser, Rowardennan, Loch Lomond
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Loch Lomond East
Goosander pair and female Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) at SCENE, Rowardennan, Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve
11 May 2011
Red-breasted Mergansers, Tiree
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Scarinish and Gott Bay, Tiree
Group of Red-breasted Mergansers (Mergus serrator), Tiree. On the right is a probable first year male which has a dark eye-ring during moult which begins in August and lasts throughout the winter and even as late as April.
29 April 2014
Red-breasted Merganser, Millport
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Great Cumbrae, Firth of Clyde
Female Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) resting on Newton beach in Millport, Great Cumbrae
05 June 2010
Red-breasted Merganser courtship display
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Ythan estuary
Group of male Red-breasted Mergansers (Mergus serrator) in courtship display trying to impress a female on the Ythan estuary, Newburgh, Aberdeenshire.
21 March 2014
Red-breasted Merganser male
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Mid Argyllshire
Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) male, Bellanoch, River Add
02 June 2011
Red-breasted Mergansers in flight
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Mid Argyllshire
Red-breasted Mergansers (Mergus serrator) in flight, River Add
02 June 2011
Pair of Red-Breasted Mergansers (Mergus serrator) on a west Highland sea loch
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South Knapdale
Pair of Red-Breasted Mergansers (Mergus serrator) on a west Highland sea loch. Mergansers are distinguishable from Goosanders mainly by their crests, and by their habitat - mainly marine in winter, in contrast to the Goosander which inhabits mainly inland waters.
30 January 2011
Red breasted mergansers entering water
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Birds of the Firth of Clyde
Red-Breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) pair entering the water at the north end of Great Cumbrae. Both birds are moulting and are red-heads at this stage in September. On the left is a male Red Breasted Merganser with dark scapulars and more patches of white on the wing and female on the right, with less well-defined plumage , in particular having a greyer back and less white on the wings.
30 September 2007
Male Goosander preening
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Glasgow - Hogganfield Loch
Male Goosander (Mergus merganser) preening, Hogganfield Loch