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OTD in '24: A hooded merganser in the snow on the pond makes for a picturesque scene.

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Daytime camera trap photo of a beaver pond with hooded merganser in the snow.
December 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
chriswhittier.bsky.social
OTD in '23, hooded merganser visited the pond.

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Daytime camera trap photo of a male hooded merganser on the water at an old beaver dam. Crop of a daytime camera trap photo of a male hooded merganser on the water at an old beaver dam.
March 5, 2026 at 7:41 PM
callenh.bsky.social
Hooded merganser. #HoodedMerganser #LophodytesCucullatus #Merganser #Duck #Bird #Animal #Nature #Photography #SpiderLake #ManitowishWaters #Wisconsin
A hooded merganser swimming She is moving left to right. The body is grey and brown. From the neck above it is reddish-brown with a nice crest. There is a white spot beneath the black eye. The bill is long and hooked at the end.
June 23, 2026 at 12:12 PM
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#Koskla (Koskel)
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Lilleküla #Linnu #Mooni
#Sawbill, large ducks with serrated bill for catching fish: jääkoskel, common #goosander, gulaund or goosander, #MergusMerganser; kübarkoskel, hooded merganser, #LophodytesCucullatus; rohukoskel, red-breasted merganser, #MSerrator;
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September 23, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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Another nesting season for #woodduck #aixsponsa #wodu and #hoodedmerganser #lophodytescucullatus #home is chugging along at Huntley Meadows Park. We have 4 boxes with clutches incubating, and eggs in another 4 boxes. Box #62 (pictured) was replaced this year […]

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A wooden nest box mounted on a pole, standing in a marsh. The box is about two feet tall, and is painted brown. A clutch of 10 Wood Duck eggs in a bed of wood chips.
March 31, 2026 at 9:35 PM
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An update on nesting season for #woodduck #aixsponsa #wodu and #hoodedmerganser #lophodytescucullatus #HOME at Huntley Meadows Park: 4 boxes have hatched out; 5 boxes have clutches that are incubating. Box #7 (pictured) hatched and fledged an estimated 13 #home ducklings, leaving 1 egg unhatched.
The remains of a successful nest: duck down, eggshell fragments, and one unhatched egg.
April 29, 2026 at 9:30 PM
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Nesting activity in our boxes for #home #hoodedmerganser #lophodytescucullatus and #wodu #woodduck #aixsponsa is starting to wind down, with 7 boxes successfully fledged. But we still have 3, maybe more, boxes active.
May 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Nesting season for cavity-nesting ducks has begun at Fairfax County's Huntley Meadows Park. One nest box has 6 new eggs of #home #hoodedmerganser #lophodytescucullatus.
March 3, 2025 at 7:39 PM
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refreshed #introduction

#citizenscientist in Reston, VA in the suburbs of Washington, DC · coordinator for long-term project at Huntley Meadows Park, monitoring #nestbox activity of #woodduck (#aixsponsa) and #hoodedmerganser (#lophodytescucullatus) · http://www.virginiamasternaturalist.org · […]
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September 18, 2024 at 9:40 PM