hooded merganser

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English

A male hooded merganser

Noun

hooded merganser (plural hooded mergansers)

  1. A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.
    Synonyms: hooded sheldrake, hootamaganzy, hoodie, (dated) snowl
    • 2014 December 4, Margaret Bream, “Wild in the City: hooded mergansers”, in Toronto Star‎, Toronto, O.N.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-30:
      While scoping out the flyways and byways of our city for nature news this week (within my family I refer to this rather solitary activity as bunny-hunting — they know what I mean) I came across a dozen or so hooded mergansers at Humber Bay Park East.

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