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Photo Properties
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi
Aperture Value
f/5
Color Space
sRGB
Exposure Bias Value
0 EV
Exposure Program
Program
Flash
No Flash
Focal Length
165 mm
ISO
400
Metering Mode
Multi-Segment
Shutter Speed Value
1/200 sec
Date/Time
Fri 10 Aug 2007 10:44:52 PM EDT
English Common Merganser
Scientific (Mergus merganser)
Order ANSERIFORMES
Family (Latin) Anatidae
Family (English) Ducks, Geese & Swans
Altername Name Common Merganser, Goosander
Breeding Range NA, EU
Breeding Range Subregions widespread
Nonbreeding Range
Countries (BETA) map Sweden,Nepal,Czech Republic,Portugal,Japan,Latvia,Turkey,Tunisia,Croatia,Great Britain, Slovenia,India,Algeria,Serbia and Montenegro,Azerbaijan,Bulgaria,Iraq,Belarus,Netherlands,Ukraine, Romania,Greece,Germany,Belgium,Uzbekistan,France,Libya,North Korea,Mongolia,Hungary, Liechtenstein,Pakistan,China,Estonia,Armenia,Turkmenistan,Ireland,Bosnia-Herzegovina,Iceland,Mexico, Slovakia,Tajikistan,South Korea,Poland,Spain,Egypt,Macedonia,Switzerland,Lithuania,Norway, Canada,Cyprus,Luxembourg,Iran,Kyrgyzstan,Russia,Finland,Austria,Kazakhstan,Bhutan, Myanmar,Georgia,Afghanistan,Denmark,Albania,United States Alaska,United States mainland,
IOU 3.1 Subspecies Group Subspecies Range
merganser Iceland, n Eurasia
orientalis c Asia
americanus Canada, w USA
IUCN Status Code LC (Birdlife factsheet )
German Gänsesäger
French Harle bièvre
Chinese ?????
Japanese ?????
Russian ??????? ???????
Spanish Serreta Grande
Show Breeding Range Codes and IUCN Status Codes
Breeding Range Codes
AF Africa (entire continent rather than south of Sahara)
AN Antarctica
AO Atlantic Ocean
AU Australasia (Wallacea (Indonesian islands east of Wallace's line), New Guinea and its islands, Australia, New Zealand and its subantarctic islands, the Solomons, New Caledonia, and Vanuatu)
EU Eurasia (Europe, Asia from the Middle East through central Asia north of the Himalayas, Siberia and northern China to Japan)
IO Indian Ocean
LA Latin America (Middle and South America)
MA Middle America (Mexico through Panama)
NA North America (includes the Caribbean)
NO Northern oceans
OR Oriental Region (South Asia from Pakistan to Taiwan, plus Southeast Asia, the Philippines, and Greater Sundas)
PO Pacific Ocean
SA South America
SO Southern oceans
TO Temperate oceans
TrO Tropical oceans
Worldwide Worldwide
IUCN Status Codes
EX Extinct
EW Extinct in the wild
CR Critically Endangered
EN Endangered
VU Vulnerable
NT Near Threatened
LC Least Concern
DD Data deficient
NE Not evaluated
PE Probably extinct (informal)
PEW Probably extinct in the wild (informal)