48 Red-Breasted Merganser

• A group of Merganser are called a; Brace / Flush /Paddling / Raft / Team.
• The Brace of Rec-Breasted Mergansers we saw were doing just that bracing themselves against the wind and cold by swimming with their heads tucked out of the wind.
• These birds in the north from Alaska to Newfoundland.  They winter on the coastal waters where there is fish.