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Birders

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8. You won't believe what popped up in my Google recommendations.

Fri Dec 31, 2021, 09:54 PM

Dec 2021

An article that compares buttlfheads and hooded mergansers and explains how to tell the difference, complete with pic for comparison!

https://seabrookislandbirders.org/2021/12/06/sib-birds-of-the-week-hooded-merganser-bufflehead-2/

Those Google algorithms are downright spooky sometimes.

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Hanging around the river. Mergansers? Birder friend says Buffleheads. [View all] elleng Dec 2021 OP

Cool. They look like they belong in a bathtub Walleye Dec 2021 #1

I think... 2naSalit Dec 2021 #2

Right, mergansers here: elleng Dec 2021 #3

Well... 2naSalit Dec 2021 #4

ZILLIONS of duck varieties, I'll NEVER get them straight! elleng Dec 2021 #5

I usually limit my knowledge of ducks... 2naSalit Dec 2021 #6

Well, living here @ river's edge, I SEE them, and TRY to learn; elleng Dec 2021 #7

You won't believe what popped up in my Google recommendations. ShazzieB Dec 2021 #8

NEAT! elleng Dec 2021 #9