Nature Canada

Bird Tweet of the Week: Hooded Merganser

Hooded Merganser Pair

Photo from Flickr, Christopher L. Wood

The Hooded Merganser is the smallest of the mergansers found in North America and it is about the size of an average duck. Since this species is a cavity nesting duck, the female duck will have to coax its young of just one day old out of the tree cavity which may be up to 50 feet in the air!

Each week we introduce a new bird from the Ottawa-Gatineau area through our segment on CBC Radio’s In Town and Out. Alex MacDonald, Nature Canada’s Manager of Protected Areas, shares interesting facts about the birds that live in our communities. Be sure to tune-in to “Bird Tweet of the Week” on CBC Radio One 91.5 FM on Saturday mornings from 6am to 9am and listen to past episodes on our website.

This episode aired on Saturday, January 23rd, 2016.

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