Black scoter Melanitta nigra
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Length: 14 inches Wingspan: 33 inches
Medium-sized diving duck
Dark bill
Rounded head
Paler undersides of flight feathers contrasting with darker wing linings ...
Black Scoter (Melanitta nigra)
No photo of the Black Scoter available.
The Black Scoter is from the order Anseriformes. Anseriformes are birds, with over 150 species belonging to this order.
Black Scoter
Melanitta nigra
The Black Scoter (Melanitta nigra) is a diving sea duck typically encountered in the northern United States or Canada and along the coast. Occasionally the species wanders down to Texas.
Black Scoters are rare in Weaselhead. Of the few that have been reported over the past few decades in the Weaselhead/Glemore area, all were in October or November with the vast majority of those occuring in October.
Black Scoter: Medium-sized diving duck, entirely black except for yellow knob at base of bill. Female is dark brown with contrasting pale cheeks, chin and throat, and may exhibit yellow at base of bill.
Black Scoter
(Melanitta americana)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Black Scoter
Melanitta nigra (Linnaeus)
Status Common transient, uncommon in winter, rare in summer. All three scoters tend to migrate well offshore, and times of arrival and departure are often not discerned.
Common Scoter, American Scoter, American Black Scoter, Pacific Ocean Scoter
Bird Family :
Anatini - Typical ducks ...
Black Scoters
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Take I 95 North from New Hampshire into Maine. Just after the rest center leave the interstate highway at Exit 4 ( The Yorks, Ogunquit). Proceed to the stoplight and turn right onto Highway 1 south.
Black Scoter Melanitta nigra. Rare in winter, spring, and fall in Gulf Coast region. Occasional in fall and winter in Tennessee Valley and Mountain regions. Found primarily in offshore waters and less commonly on lakes.
Black Scoter
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Surf Scoter
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Similar Species: Black Scoter, White-winged Scoter
Conservation Status: Numbers took a serious dive in the early 20th century, but populations have since rebounded and they are now abundant.
Black Scoter Melanitta americana: Gloucester Harbor, Gloucester, MA, 29 Jan
Long-tailed Duck Clangula hyemalis: Cold Spring Harbor, NY, 07 Jan
Bufflehead Bucephala albeola: San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary, Irvine, CA, 01 Jan ...
Black Scoter (Melanitta nigra)
Blue-winged Teal (Anas discors)
Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola)
Canada Goose (Branta canadensis)
Canvasback (Aythya valisineria)
Common Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
Common Merganser (Mergus merganser) ...
Well, I couldn't capture the Black Scoter that flew by, much less the Jaeger that I missed, but this big fat bird sat on a rock outcropping, seemingly too large to fly anywhere.
AMERICAN SCOTER DUCK.
[Black Scoter.]
FULIGULA AMERICANA, Swains.
[Melanitta nigra.] ...
The Common Scoter (Melanitta nigra) is a large sea duck, 43-54 cm in length, which breeds over the far north of Europe and Asia east to the Olenyok River. The American/E Siberian M. americana (Black Scoter) is sometimes considered a subspecies of ...
 See also: Scoter, Duck, Eider, Common Eider, Gadwall
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