{"id":37627,"date":"2013-04-05T15:01:30","date_gmt":"2013-04-05T13:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?p=37627"},"modified":"2019-12-22T22:43:07","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T09:43:07","slug":"red-breasted-merganser-mergus-serrator-female-vs-first-wintermale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/red-breasted-merganser-mergus-serrator-female-vs-first-wintermale\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) – female vs first winter male"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the winter, one of the problems of deciding whether or not the red breasted merganser that you are observing is a female or is it a first-winter male. After I researched the subject, the way to tell the first year-male from a female red-breasted merganser, is that the first-winter male red-breasted merganser as a black ring around its eye, while the female red-breasted merganser has whitish eye crescents.<\/p>\n

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First Winter Male – Black eye ring<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Female Taking off – white eye crescents<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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red-breasted Merganser – Mergus serrator<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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Female with White eye crescents<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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First-winter Male with black eye ring<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

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White eye crescents on a female<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the winter, one of the problems of deciding whether or not the red breasted merganser that you are observing is a female or is it a first-winter male. After I researched the subject, the way to tell the first year-male from a female red-breasted merganser, is that the first-winter male red-breasted merganser as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":2192912,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Red-breasted-Merganser-Mergus-serrator-_D8C4551.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1141,4083,4084,4082],"class_list":["post-37627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wildlife","tag-carolina-duck","tag-female","tag-first-winter-male","tag-red-breasted-merganser-mergus-serrator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2192912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}