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Hooded Merganser

Lophodytes cucullatus ORDER: ANSERIFORMES FAMILY: ANATIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

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Hooded Merganser Photo

© William L. Newton / CLO

A small fish-eating duck of wooded ponds, the Hooded Merganser nests in holes in trees. It is frequently seen on shallow waters where its only waterfowl companion is the Wood Duck.

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Calls

  • Wing-whistle and calls
    Recorded by William W. H. Gunn, Oliver H. Hewitt
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Silent except in courtship when male gives a deep rolling frog-like sound. Wings produce a loud whistling in flight.

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