Re: [cobirds] Mystery dead bird

Hi James,

It's a female Hooded Merganser. Good job noticing the serrated bill. The pale brown bushy crest is another clincher.

Nathan Pieplow

Boulder

On Fri, Oct 30, 2020 at 6:14 AM James Connell <questar62@gmail.com> wrote:

 I hate to post this but a neighbor alerted me to a dead bird on our street.

I'm stumped, 1st guess was a white winged scoter till I looked them up and they have a much different bill.

This one is narrow, pointed and has the "teeth" on the bill pointing toward a fish eater.

Belly was pure white but had been sort of excavated.

The bird was about 15" long

I'm 2 miles from Cherry Creek Res, although there are streams in the area.

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