Common Scoter
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Common Scoter, American Scoter, American Black Scoter, Pacific Ocean Scoter
Bird Family :
Anatini - Typical ducks ...
Melanitta nigra is called Common Scoter in Europe and Black Scoter in North America.
The Common Scoter on Cape Breton Island - a correction. Canadian Field-Nat. 73: 184
1966. The Birds of Canada. Nat. Mus. Canada Bull. 203. Biol. Ser. 73.
1984. A tribute to Robie Wilfred Tufts,1884-1982. Canadian Field-Nat. 98: 513-518.
Taken today on Bodega Bay, Campbell's Cove. Other scoters are the Surf Scoter and Black Scoter/Common Scoter.
Melanitta nigra - Common Scoter
Melanitta perspicillata - Surf Scoter (photo)
Melanitta fusca - White-winged Scoter
Bucephala
Bucephala clangula - Common Goldeneye
Bucephala albeola - Bufflehead ...
 See also: Scoter, Duck, Finch, Cormorant, Grouse
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