hooded merganser

English

A male hooded merganser

Noun

hooded merganser (plural hooded mergansers)

1. A species of fish-eating duck, Lophodytes cucullatus.

   Synonyms: hooded sheldrake, hootamaganzy, hoodie, (dated) snowl

   • 2014 December 4, Margaret Bream, “Wild in the City: hooded mergansers”, in Toronto Star‎^[1], Toronto, O.N.: Toronto Star Newspapers Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2015-10-30:

     While scoping out the flyways and byways of our city for nature news this week (within my family I refer to this rather solitary activity as bunny-hunting — they know what I mean) I came across a dozen or so hooded mergansers at Humber Bay Park East.

Further reading

• Hooded merganser on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “hooded merganser”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “hooded merganser, n.” under “hooded, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.