Talk:Hooded merganser

Hi. I wanted to ask one thing. (I am not primarily a birder, more of a mollusk person.) I do not understand this section which I have just made into a separate paragraph: "Although they have occurred as vagrants to Europe, this attractive species is so common in collections that only a ringed bird would be likely to be accepted as anything other than an escape." What does "collections" mean? To me the word collections means museum collections, but here I suppose it means when people keep a selection of ornamental birds on their property like Muscovy ducks, peafowl and so on? If that is what it means can we please make this sentence a lot clearer? I think maybe it needs rewriting to clarify it. Thanks. Invertzoo (talk) 15:28, 30 December 2007 (UTC)

Is the link to Pilling's Pond appropriate? Worldwalker (talk) 04:26, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

Is it a merganser?

If it does not belong to the merganser genus, in what sense is it a merganser, other than its common name? Either this article, or the merganser article, needs clarification i think. 2601:188:C302:ABB0:1D8:102E:89A5:DDD4 (talk) 20:24, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

This is handled in the third paragraph of merganser. Perhaps a similar piece can be added to this article. - UtherSRG (talk) 20:27, 21 February 2023 (UTC)

...and done! - UtherSRG (talk) 21:06, 21 February 2023 (UTC)