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Female Mergus merganser americanus at Las Gallinas Wildlife Ponds🦆

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SpeciesAnseriformesAnatidae
Birds

🦆Common Merganser

Mergus merganser Linnaeus, 1758

カワアイサ（学名：Mergus merganser）は、カモ目カモ科ウミアイサ属に分類される鳥である。

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≈ 1/43rd of your weight
Also called
Goosander
Conservation status
LCLeast concern

IUCN Red List assessment, 2018.

Population trendUnknown
Key measurements
Body mass
1.45 kg
Body length
not recorded
Shoulder height
not recorded
Top speed
not recorded
Bite force
not recorded
Maximum lifespan
15 years
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Facts and figures

Everything we know about the Common Merganser

Typical adult figures. Where a value is an estimate rather than a measurement, it says so.

Body mass
1.45 kg
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

By sex

  • Female1.23 kgWikidataQ180991
  • Male1.71 kgWikidataQ180991

Figures vary

  • 1.45 kgAnAgeAnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR)data quality: acceptable
Tail length
0.11 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Wing length
0.27 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Beak length
0.07 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Tarsus length
0.05 m
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Maximum lifespan
15 years
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Gestation
30 days
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Litter size
about 10
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data quality: acceptable

Source: AnAge · AnAge build 15, 2023-07-03 (HAGR) · CC BY 3.0

Trophic level
Carnivore
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Habitat
Riverine
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Lifestyle
Aquatic
AVONET
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Source: AVONET · v1.1 (Tobias et al. 2022) · CC BY 4.0

Danger to humans
harmless
SeaLifeBase
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Source: SeaLifeBase · v25.04 · CC BY-NC 4.0

Volume l
1.5 Laverage
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Body mass at ~1.0 kg/L, the density of vertebrate tissue.

average = a mean across sexes or species in a group.

Not recorded for Common Merganser yet: body length, shoulder height, top speed, bite force.

Where it sits

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  1. kingdomAnimalia
  2. ›phylumChordata
  3. ›classAves
  4. ›orderAnseriformes
  5. ›familyAnatidae
  6. ›genusMergus
  7. ›speciesMergus merganser
Full lineage
  1. classBirds · Aves
  2. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  3. familyAnatidae
  4. genusMergus
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  1. kingdomMetazoa
  2. phylumChordata
  3. subphylumCraniata
  4. subphylumVertebrata
  5. superclassGnathostomata
  6. superclassSarcopterygii
  7. superclassTetrapoda
  8. orderSauria
  9. classBirds · Aves
  10. superorderGalloanserae
  11. orderDucks, geese & swans · Anseriformes
  12. familyAnatidae
  13. genusMergus
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storskrake (sv), bec de serra gros (ca), morčák velký (cs), stor skallesluger (da), Gänsesäger (de), Mergus merganser (es) … and 25 more languages
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