THE SCAUP DUCK.--FLOCKING FOWL.
[Greater Scaup.]
FUGIGULA MARILA, Linn.
[Aythya marila.] ...
Lesser Scaup
Athya affinis (Eyton)
Status Uncommon transient, very rare in winter. Gilpin (1880) referred to a mounted specimen without giving details, and Piers (notes) examined a bird collected on 18 February 1898.
Lesser scaup Aythya affinis
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Length: 12 inches Wingspan: 29 inches
Small, compact diving duck
Peaked crown
Yellow eyes
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Lesser Scaups
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Lesser Scaup
Relatives in same Genus
Redhead (A. americana)
Ring-necked Duck (A. collaris)
Tufted Duck (A. fuligula)
Greater Scaup (A. marila)
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Greater Scaup
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The Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) is a common and widespread diving duck which breeds across much of Canada and parts of the northwestern United States.
Scaup, Scaup Duck, Greater Scaup Duck, Bluebill, Broadbill
Bird Family :
Anatini - Typical ducks ...
Scaup is the most common of the small New Zealand ducks and is still found in many parts of the country, although its numbers have been greatly reduced compared with earlier days and in spite of hydro lakes offering additional habitat.
Scaup are diving ducks with a resemblance to tufted ducks. Males have black heads, shoulder and breast, white flanks, grey back and a black tail. Females are brown, with characteristic white patches around the base of the bill.
Scaup and coot die-off at Lake Winnibigosh
Minnesota Conservation Volunteer articles -
Minnesota Ducks Dabble Or Dive For Dinner ...
"scaup", "week-week-week"
INTERESTING FACTS
A group of ducks has many collective nouns, including a "brace", "flush", "paddling", "raft", and "team" of ducks.
In North America, their population has been on a steady decline since the 1990's.
Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)
No photo of the Lesser Scaup available.
The Lesser Scaup is from the order Anseriformes. Anseriformes are birds, with over 150 species belonging to this order.
Lesser Scaup - Aythya affinis
Ring-necked Duck - Aythya collaris
Greater Scaup Behaviour
No observations regarding Greater Scaup behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
The Lesser Scaup is difficult to distinguish from the Greater Scaup. The Lesser Scaup has a more angled crown when relaxed, a darker grey back and barring in the sides of the breeding male, a shorter wing stripe in flight, and a slighter build.
Greater Scaup
(Aythya marila)
Status: Migrant.
Last recorded on site in 2011
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
This bird occurs on site as an uncommon and irregular migrant.
Occ lays eggs in nests of other Greater Scaups; clutches >11 likely result from such brood parasitism. Nests occ clustered, appearing semicolonial. Male deserts when incubation begins. Females often combine broods and cooperatively tend and defend.
Scaup, New Zealand aka Black Teal Aythya novaeseelandiae Found: New Zealand
Photographed by: 1, 2, 3) Dick Daniels at Sylvan Heights 4, 5, 6) Dick in New Zealand
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2: Lesser Scaup (female), Lake Merritt, California
3-4: American White Pelican, Lake Merritt, California
5. Snowy Egret, Lake Merritt, California ...
Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis. Common in winter, spring, and fall in Tennessee Valley and Gulf Coast regions, and occasional in summer. Fairly common in winter, spring, and fall in Mountain and Inland Coastal Plain regions, and occasional in summer.
Lesser Scaup
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Black Scoter
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
New Zealand Scaup Aythya novaeseelandiae (Papango)
Raptors
Australasian Harrier Circus approximans (Kahu)
New Zealand Falcon Falco novaeseelandiae (Karearea) ...
Greater Scaup Aythya marila: Upper Newport Bay Ecological Reserve, Newport Beach, CA, 01 Jan
Lesser Scaup Aythya affinis: Lake Perris State Recreation Area, Perris, CA, 03 Jan ...
Ducks are usually divided into three groups: the surface-feeding ducks—such as the mallard, wood duck, black duck, and teal—which frequent ponds, marshes, and other quiet waters; the diving ducks—such as the canvasback, scaup, ...
Aythya marila - Greater Scaup
Aythya affinis - Lesser Scaup
Somateria
Somateria mollissima - Common Eider
Somateria spectabilis - King Eider
Somateria fischeri - Spectacled Eider
Polysticta ...
Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)
Greater White-fronted Goose (Anser albifrons)
Green-winged Teal (Anas crecca)
Hooded Merganser (Lophodytes cucullatus)
Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)
Long-tailed Duck (Oldsquaw) (Clangula hyemalis) ...
Greater scaup (Aythya marila)
Red-breasted merganser (Mergus serrator)
Gadwall (Anas strepera)
Goldeneye (Bucephala clangula)
Mute swan (Cygnus olor)
Wigeon (Anas penelope)
Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri)
Northern pintail (Anas acuta) ...
Behavior: The American Wigeon is often found feeding with diving ducks such as the Redhead, Scaup, and Canvasback, who are adept at rooting up vegetation from deep in the water.
All are less common during the summer months and in more southern areas. The Greater Scaup is found along the coasts. Only the Ring-neck Duck breeds in Florida, but not regularly.
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Some females, such as the one in the third photo, show white at the base of the bill. This could cause confusion with female Scaup (Aythya marila) but look for some vestige of a tuft, the unevenly round head and the large black tip to the bill.
bufflehead, and mergansers are lumped in with scoters, eiders, long tailed ducks (formerly old squaw), and harlequins in the sea duck tribe, for regulatory purposes, goldeneyes and buffleheads are considered "regular" ducks, the same as scaup or ...
 See also: Duck, Greater scaup, Ring-necked Duck, Scoter, Mallard
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