Red-breasted Merganser - Sayam U. Chowdhury
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Moheshkhali
Chittagong bibhag, Bangladesh
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Map Coordinates: 21.4972905, 91.9435689
Age
Not specified
Sex
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Observation details

We found this first-year Red-breasted Merganser during the monthly waterbird survey by the Bangladesh Spoon-billed Conservation Project. The bird was identified as a first-year Red-breasted Merganser based on its striped loral pattern, up-curved bill, ill-defined white throat, and short straggly feathers on its crown and upper-nape. The adult male is very distinctive, whilst adult female has a less-strongly patterned face and a shaggier head. The lack of a distinct border between the reddish-brown head and whitish breast distinguished it from Goosander M. merganser. The nearest record of Red-breasted Merganser that we could trace was on eBird, of a bird at Teesta Barrage, Gajoldoba, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India, on 9 December 2018 by Soumik Biswas (https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S50640125).

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