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Harle écaillé 
ou Le Harle de Chine
Scaly-sided merganser or Chinese merganser 
(Vịt mỏ nhọn, Mergus squamatus)

Le Harle de Chine ou Harle écaillé (Mergus squamatus) est un Anatidae se rencontrant plus particulièrement en Asie.

Le Harle huppé
Red-breasted merganser (Vịt cát ngực đỏ, Mergus serrator) 

Le Harle huppé (Mergus serrator) est un canard plongeur, appartenant au groupe des harles (ou canards à bec en scie). Son habitat de reproduction se compose de lacs et de rivières d'eau douce à travers le nord de l'Amérique du Nord, le Groenland, l'Europe et la zone paléarctique.

Mergus is the genus of the typical mergansers fish-eating ducks in the subfamily Anatinae. 

1/ Scaly-sided merganser or Chinese merganser (Vịt mỏ nhọn, Mergus squamatus)
2/ Red-breasted merganser (Vịt cát ngực đỏ, Mergus serrator) 

anas, anatis: Latin duck.
The genus name Mergus is a Latin word to refer to an unspecified waterbird.
Mergus is a Latin word meaning "diver" or "waterfowl," derived from the verb mergere, which means "to dip" or "plunge". It was used by ancient authors to refer to an unspecified diving seabird.

Mergus est le genre des harles typiques, des canards piscivores de la sous-famille des Anatinés. 
le nom vernaculaire de ces oiseaux est harles.

1/ Le Harle de Chine ou Harle écaillé
Scaly-sided merganser or Chinese merganser (Vịt mỏ nhọn, Mergus squamatus)

2/ Harle huppé
Red-breasted merganser (Vịt cát ngực đỏ, Mergus serrator) 

anas, anatis: Latin pour les canards.

Le nom de genre Mergus est un mot latin qui désigne un oiseau aquatique non spécifié.
Le terme Mergus signifie « plongeur » ou « oiseau d'eau » en latin. Il dérive du verbe mergere, qui veut dire « plonger » ou « s'immerger ». 
Les auteurs de l'Antiquité utilisaient ce mot pour désigner un oiseau de mer plongeur sans préciser l'espèce exacte.

Red-breasted merganser (Vịt cát ngực đỏ, Mergus serrator) 

The Red-breasted Merganser (Vịt mỏ nhọn ngực đỏ, Mergus serrator) is a diving duck, one of the sawbills. Its breeding habitat is freshwater lakes and rivers across northern North America, Greenland, Europe, and the Palearctic.

anas, anatis: Latin duck.
The genus name Mergus is a Latin word to refer to an unspecified waterbird.
Mergus is a Latin word meaning "diver" or "waterfowl," derived from the verb mergere, which means "to dip" or "plunge". It was used by ancient authors to refer to an unspecified diving seabird.

The term serrator is derived from the Latin word "serra," meaning "saw," and the related verb "serrare," meaning "to saw". In Latin, serrator can refer to a person who saws, or more commonly, it appears in the adjective form serratus, which means "sawed," "notched like a saw," or "toothed like a saw". 

Scaly-sided merganser or Chinese merganser 
(Vịt mỏ nhọn, Mergus squamatus)

The scaly-sided merganser or Chinese merganser (Mergus squamatus) is an endangered typical merganser (genus Mergus).
The bird lives in Manchuria and extreme Southeast Siberia, breeding in the north and wintering in the south.

anas, anatis: Latin duck.
The genus name Mergus is a Latin word to refer to an unspecified waterbird.
Mergus is a Latin word meaning "diver" or "waterfowl," derived from the verb mergere, which means "to dip" or "plunge". It was used by ancient authors to refer to an unspecified diving seabird.
Squamatus is a Latin word meaning "scaly" or "covered with scales". The term originates from the Latin word squama, which means "scale".