I've never seen a close-up of the bill of a merganser before. The serrated edges will allow it to hold quite a few fish without them slipped out. It must come in handy for feeding its youngsters.
Boy those look sharp! That's the first time I've heard the word 'grib'. What's the definition? Is it like 'gut'?
Those teeth would definitly not loose lunch very often. Reminds me of a Longipteryx.....a scurry of fingers and a lot of key typing has people hunting for a Longipteryx.... The Longipteryx was a small bird like creature with feathers, long clawed toes, and teeth. It could have pecked bugs off of a dinosaurs back though it probably hunted fish like a present day kingfisher and this toothy fellow. It lived during the cretaceous period(145 to 67 Mya). Jerry P.S. Grib sounds like a nice word to have in the dictionary. I too did a quick lookup and while grib was not taken in the halls of words and definitions, the word gribber came up....now I know what marine creature bores its way into wood in the ocean. Given the kind of words that find their way into the dictionary each year, grib is a solid sounding word......and......since it is now permanently in the internet it is destined for greatness. Now, I am hungry so I am going to grib a bite to eat.
Very good Jerry, I've always wanted to be famous for something. Grib sounds about as high as I will go.
