How to Use merganser in a Sentence

merganser

noun

• But 50 yards to the north, mergansers and goldeneyes dove for fish in an open circle of water.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Jan. 2018
• Lake Davidson gave up six red-breasted mergansers and a greater scaup, both nice ducks to find.
  — Taylor Piephoff, charlotteobserver, 11 Jan. 2018
• Usually, the lake had a mix of pines and maples around it, mallards and mergansers on it, the sky’s changing moods reflected in it.
  — Alec Scott, Sunset Magazine, 22 Jan. 2018
• The pools beavers make are too shallow for diving predators like mergansers and kingfishers and bigger fish.
  — Starre Vartan, National Geographic, 13 Aug. 2019
• Sandra Critelli, a birder and photographer who saw the merganser, tells Gothamist that the duck was active, but unable to close its beak.
  — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Feb. 2020
• Newly arrived wild ducks—buffleheads and hooded mergansers—circle in small groups near the shore.
  — Sylvia Poggioli, The New York Review of Books, 29 Mar. 2020
• Ring-necked ducks, buffleheads and hooded mergansers arrive for the winter.
  — Houston Chronicle, 10 May 2018
• And, in fact some swimmers do come in the winter: buffleheads, ring-necked ducks, mergansers and other waterfowl visiting from the north.
  — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2019
• Some attractions are a snapping turtle that likes to sun itself on a log, a variety of fish in the lake and such fish-eating birds as herons, kingfishers and mergansers.
  — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 11 May 2017
• For opening day, our six-member camp took 14 ducks, including seven woodies, five mallards, one blue-winged teal and one hooded merganser.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 30 Sep. 2017
• Today, a mated pair of mergansers share this bay of the fjord with splashing arctic terns, recently arrived from waters off Antarctica.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 8 June 2019
• Many predators such as mountain lions, coyotes and bobcats are included in the proposals alongside game species such as mule deer, antelope and several bird species, including snipe, gallinule and merganser.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, azcentral, 11 Apr. 2020
• An odd thing is happening on a nearby pond: A hooded merganser seems to think a mallard hen is his mate and aggressively chases off any mallard males, even diving underwater like a submarine to come up under them to scare them away.
  — Val Cunningham Special To The Star Tribune, Star Tribune, 15 June 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024