Even among merganser ducks known for their wild “hairdos,” the hooded merganser’s style stands out. This eye-catching diving duck is instantly identifiable from its large-looking head, which, on males ...

The best advice to find hooded mergansers used to be, get yourself to a pond in the woods. This season, you can just as well look in one of the Grand Forks retention ponds, part of the flood control ...