A species of fossil duck from the Late Pleistocene of Vero Beach, Florida, was described as Querquedula floridana (a genus now included in Anas), but upon reexamination turned out to be a species closely related to the Hooded Merganser; it is now named Lophodytes floridanus, but the exact relationship between this bird and the modern species is unknown.
Hooded Plover | Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang | Hooded Crane | Scaly-sided Merganser | Hooded Crow | Black-hooded Coucal | Hooded Parrot | hooded crane | Common Merganser |
Baptized the Lagoa do Rolo, it has become the most westerly lake in Europe, although it is considerably small, spawning a small habitat for migrating birds from North America, during the fall (including the Hawfinch and the Hooded Merganser).