Hooded Merganser

Lophodytes cucullatus

Hooded Merganser photographed by Henry Haas
Fernandina Beach · February 22, 2025

When to look

Reported most in January, across 3M open records.

Records by month. January, 480,600 records. February, 357,867 records. March, 476,173 records. April, 343,213 records. May, 156,860 records. June, 65,319 records. July, 52,560 records. August, 66,846 records. September, 73,057 records. October, 138,209 records. November, 405,160 records. December, 424,402 records.

Occurrence data from GBIF (incl. the eBird Observation Dataset, © Cornell Lab of Ornithology, CC BY 4.0). Descriptive, not predictive.

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