Never a common species hereabouts Red.breasted Mergansers can sometimes be seen over-wintering in the Sado Estuary or off-shore near the Ria Formosa - and once I even had a lost individual on the lake in front of the Quinta in mid-summer back at the turn of the century!

Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator)

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