I’m convinced, Hooded Mergansers are simply Wood Ducks that have been corrupted by the Dark Side. Similar in size and sharing a proclivity for nesting in tree cavities, the bill of the hoodie shrivels ...

The Wisconsin DNR has announced that laboratory tests have identified the bird flu in a wild merganser collected from Milwaukee County. Since mid-December, the H5 HPAI virus has been detected in six ...

Hundreds of ducks stricken by bird flu have been found in the Chicago area along the shoreline of Lake Michigan. Chicago Bird Collision Monitors (CBCM), a volunteer-run conservation project, has ...

A wild red-breasted merganser found in Milwaukee County tested positive for highly pathogenic avian influenza. The bird was one of 21 birds taken in by the Wisconsin Humane Society's Wildlife ...

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There are about 64 members of the North American duck family. This number includes geese and swans. The ducks are classified into two sub-families and seven tribes, based on similarities of habits and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO — Hundreds of ducks infected with ...

A common merganser hen landing on the Rapid River in Northern Michigan with a backdrop of fall color graces the cover of the ...

RALEIGH, N.C. (WECT) - A photo of two hooded mergansers has won the grand prize of the 2021-2022 Wildlife in North Carolina Photo Competition. A photographer from Cary, Jian Zheng, took the photo at ...

Hundreds of red-breasted mergansers have been found either dead or sick over the past few days along Lake Michigan in Chicago and into the northern suburbs. Officials suspect that highly contagious ...