| Common Name: Red-breasted Merganser | Species: Mergus serrator | id#: 1115 | | Location: Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada | Date Sighted: 2012-02-07 # Seen: 3 | User: JUNPonline |  Site Description: Bedford Basin, just off shore at dewolf park
Comment : Head rusty brown with spiky feathers on top. Slaty gray mostly, belly and flanks white. Bill orange, white patch in wing visible in flight. |
| Common Name: Red-breasted Merganser | Species: Mergus serrator | id#: 1080 | | Location: Bedford, Nova Scotia, Canada | Date Sighted: 2012-01-17 # Seen: 2 | User: JUNPonline |  Site Description: Bedford Basin, Dewold Park boardwalk. About 40 m off shore. They seemed to avoid the shore and a flock of ducks and seagulls nearby. Saw them here a couple weeks ago too.
Comment : Spiky crest on head visible in photo and long thin red bill, this male has a dark head, a white neck, a black back and white underparts. A greyish femail was nearby too. |
| Common Name: Red-breasted Merganser | Species: Mergus serrator | id#: 431 | | Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | Date Sighted: 2011-01-30 # Seen: 10 | User: JUNPonline |  Site Description: Just off the shore of Point Pleasant Park, seemed to be shy birds or were afraid of all the other gulls and ducks, they stayed farther off shore.
Comment : You can just barely make out the ruffled head feathers in the photo. Black head and back, breast pale cinnamon-brown, make them males. |
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