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What is a Merganser?

10,000 Birds

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. Ironically, only one of these seaducks is truly a seafarer, the others favoring rivers and lakes.

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Queensland’s First Nordmann’s Greenshank

10,000 Birds

I would be away from my family for a time and my visiting in-laws from Tasmania….Perhaps I already had Nordmann’s on my life list from a single sighting of two birds in coastal Thailand back in 1995. The arguments against? This would really be an I.D.I.O.T. Cairns was some 1600 kilometres, nearly 1000 miles, away.

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