Red-breasted Merganser Courtship - Bob Armstrong's Nature Alaska

https://vimeo.com/407852968

Red-breasted Merganser Courtship is a video taken in the Juneau area on April 14, 2020.
It shows some of the behavior of the male mergansers when courting the females.
For good information about this behavior look at Craik, S., J. Pearce, and R. D. Titman (2020). Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator), version 1.0. In Birds of the World (S. M. Billerman, Editor). Cornell Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, NY, USA. https://doi.org/10.2173/bow.rebmer.01
In this report you can see this illustration which shows the postures in this video.
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