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red-breasted merganser in British English (ˈrɛdˌbrɛstɪd mɜːˈɡænsə) nouna widely distributed merganser, Mergus serrator of America and Europe: family Anatidae Examples of 'red-breasted merganser' in a sentencered-breasted merganser The red-breasted merganser is one of the most comic-looking of our birds.The sight of a red-breasted merganser (male pictured) is always a moment of keen pleasure.This is the red-breasted merganser, which has a stiff, spiky crest sticking out from the back of its head.Other sawbills are goosanders and red-breasted mergansers.Look out for red-breasted mergansers, dippers and grey wagtails along the river, and ring ouzels, buzzards and ravens on the hillsides.The three sawbill ducks - smews, goosanders and red-breasted mergansers - have been spreading through thecountry on large lakes and reservoirs.Goosanders and red-breasted mergansers are 'sawbills', so called because they haveteeth on the inner edges of their beak to grip fish with. |