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Birding Reports => Toronto Reports => Topic started by: ravynne40 on January 14, 2010, 11:40:54 AM

Title: Marie Curtis Park, Etobicoke Creek
Post by: ravynne40 on January 14, 2010, 11:40:54 AM

Tuesday January 12/10 seen 2 male buffleheads with one female
and a female Hooded Merganser

do these birds usually stick around for the winter?or was the merganser left behind?

Irene

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Post by: Julia on January 14, 2010, 03:47:31 PM

Hi Irene,

"Hoodies" are often around Lake Ontario in the wintertime.  Like most ducks, they don't really need warm temperatures to survive, just open water.  Head down to Humber Bay Park on any day in the wintertime and you're likely to see the "trifecta" of mergansers!

Julia

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Post by: ravynne40 on January 14, 2010, 05:35:51 PM

thanks Julia what exactly is a "trifecta"?

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Post by: Anonymous on January 15, 2010, 08:56:46 AM

Trifecta = red breasted mergansers, common mergansers, hooded mergansers. :)