{"id":55674,"date":"2014-02-11T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=1bd77798abc684b50edd599bfbd6f54f"},"modified":"2026-07-16T07:59:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T06:59:57","slug":"red-breasted-merganser-dives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/red-breasted-merganser-dives\/","title":{"rendered":"Red-breasted Merganser Dives"},"content":{"rendered":"

February is a good month to look for red-breasted merganser ducks in New York City’s East River. Today I saw the one in these two photos. I wrote about another on a February Sunday in 2011. The red-breasted merganser is a diving duck; it mainly eats fish, which it dives under water to catch. Below is a picture of this duck’s energetic dive, just before he disappeared.<\/p>\n

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A male red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A male red-breasted merganser, Mergus serrator.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

February is a good month to look for red-breasted merganser ducks in New York City’s East River. Today I saw the one in these two photos. I wrote about another on a February Sunday in 2011. The red-breasted merganser is a diving duck; it mainly eats fish, which it dives under water to catch. Below […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":2151313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[2450,1387,1386],"class_list":["post-55674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-julie-feinstein","tag-mergus-serrator","tag-red-breasted-merganser"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55674","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\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2151313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}