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It’s pouring with rain again here in the UK (and I’ve been feeling absolutely exhausted after a bout of ‘instant weight loss the viral way’ which has seen me tied to our bathroom for the last few days), so in the absence of any birding here today I thought I’d post a few photos instead [...]
One of the sweetest subsections of the duck family has to be the sawbills, formally known as mergansers. Mergansers are a family of diving waterfowl in Merginae, the seaduck subfamily of Anatidae. Ironically, only one of these seaducks is truly a seafarer, the others favoring rivers and lakes. The name ‘merganser’ is said to have [...]