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Red-breasted Mergansers, Tiree
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Tiree - Scarinish and Gott Bay
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
Female Goosander on the River Tweed
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Peebles Galashiels and Selkirk
Female Goosander (Mergus merganser) on the River Tweed near Peebles
20 March 2016
Red breasted mergansers entering water
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Firth of Clyde - 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.
