The red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator) is a diving duck, one of the sawbills. Red-breasted mergansers dive and swim underwater. They mainly eat small fish, but also aquatic insects, crustaceans, and frogs. Males and females look totally different from each other.
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Feeling thirsty, IMG_4928
This male duck stops for a sip every time he passes by the birdbath, which is several times a day before walking back to the lake for a swim. Why not drinking from the lake, I wonder?