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This striking sea duck has a thin red bill and a scaled dark pattern on the flanks and rump. Both sexes have a crest of wispy elongated feathers, reaching almost to the shoulders in adult males and being fairly short in females and immatures. The adult male has a black head and neck, white breast and underparts, and blackish mantle and wings, except for the white innerwings. The scaling is also black, while the tail is medium grey. The female has a buffish head and otherwise replaces the male's black with grey colour. The legs are orange-red and the irides dark brown in both sexes.
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When to see the Scaly-sided Merganser
One bar for each month. Filled bars are the 5 months with records; pale bars are months with none. The wide bar is January, the month with the most records.
Where to see the Scaly-sided Merganser
The map shades 6 countries with regular records. Everything unshaded has no records. Countries are listed below the map.
About the Scaly-sided Merganser
The scaly-sided merganser or Chinese merganser is an endangered typical merganser. It lives in Manchuria and extreme Southeast Siberia, breeding in the north and wintering in the south.
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Easily confused with
Brazilian MerganserMergus octosetaceusThis merganser is a dark, slender duck with a shiny dark-green hood with a long crest, which is usually shorter and more worn-looking in females.
Red-breasted MerganserMergus serratorThe adult red-breasted merganser is 51–64 cm (20–25 in) long, has a wingspan of 66–74 cm (26–29 in).
Common MerganserMergus merganserIt is 58–72 cm (23–28+1⁄2 in) long with a 78–97 cm (30+1⁄2–38 in) wingspan and a weight of 0.9–2.1 kg (2 lb 0 oz – 4 lb 10 oz); males are on average slightly larger than females, but with some overlap.
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