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Range Map for Common Merganser

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Migration

Short-distance to medium-distance migrant. All North American populations migrate, with coastal birds usually moving shorter distances and interior birds moving farther. Common Mergansers are often the last waterfowl migrant to move south in the fall and the first to return north in the spring.

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