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What is a Merganser?

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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. The sole sawbill of the Southern Hemisphere is down to 200-250 birds extant mainly because the habitat it requires is equally threatened.

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Queensland’s First Nordmann’s Greenshank

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The recorded bird was a Nordmann’s Greenshank. The bird had been found standing calmly on the muddy esplanade of the northern city of Cairns by Adrian Walsh who, just as calmly, sounded the alarm. Adrian attracted a little bit of local press as the news of ‘Nordy’ spread far and wide if only in birding circles.

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