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Three images by Richard Koenig; taken July 4, 2021.

Common Merganser

A stunning goosander drake in low light before sunset #goosander #merganser #commonmerganser #mergus #mergusmerganser #merginae #anatidae #duck #divingduck #bird #ukbird #ukbirding #llanfairfechan (at Llanfairfechan)

Common Merganser

Common Merganser

Some Barrow's Goldeneyes and Common Mergansers riding the waves together . . #vancouver #englishbaybeach #barrowsgoldeneye #commonmerganser (at English Bay) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cked1s_vIH1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

What's that bird, sir? He answered, Merganser. . These are a bunch of young mergansers that are nearly fully grown, but the boys will change outfits soon. You especially notice that they're immature when the one spreads it's wings and their like awkward little underdeveloped wings. So by human terms, they're smelly middle schoolers who are starting to look like adults but most certainly are not. However, most human adults quickly learn to control their new body odors by using deodorant and improving their hygiene, but most ducks never do that. However, they don't seem to smell. I guess they basically live in the bath. . Mergansers, like all ducks are anarchists so that explains why they don't use deodorant. Or wear pants. Both essentially mechanisms to subjugate the human body and coerce individuals into the the capitalist exchange of trading their labor for currency and currency for superfluous items like pants and deodorant. . Anyway, Mergansers do steal sometime. Like a handful of other duck species, they've been caught stealing nests. Ducks accept theft as a part of life, though. In fact, duck consider it a right to take what they need for survival. You may say, yah, well abolition of the state and personal property would bring chaos to the human world. But that's just because we're not well evolved for risk assessment. The costs of the protections you wrongly believe are gifts of the state include countless genocides and the destruction of the entire planet. . Among ducks, there's no large-scale conflict and violence which only really becomes common through the invention of the state. Ducks mostly congregate freely with one another for mutual benefit and to improve their chances against predators. They don't care much what species of duck or goose they associate with and there's very little need for competition among them. . . . #ducks #duck #merganser #mergansers #commonmerganser #commonmergansers #duckphotography #birdzoid #ducklings #flock #naturephotography #nature #outdoors #animals #wildlifeplanet #wildlife #duckduckgo #kropotkin (at Wenatchee, Washington) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQmqUGIADhG/?utm_medium=tumblr