Scoter
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Surf Scoter
Melanitta perspicillata (Linnaeus)
Status Common transient, fairly common in winter, rare in summer. The southward flight may begin in August but larger numbers are seen in late September and October.
Surf Scoter ( Melanitta perspicillata )
Surf Scoter (Male), Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California
Photograph by Alan And Elaine Wilson. Some rights reserved. (view image details) ...
Black scoter Melanitta nigra
Identification Tips:
Length: 14 inches Wingspan: 33 inches
Medium-sized diving duck
Dark bill
Rounded head
Paler undersides of flight feathers contrasting with darker wing linings ...
Velvet Scoter (Melanitta fusca)
(aka White-winged Scoter)
The Velvet Scoter breeds in the taiga and tundra of northern Europe, Asia and North America. It likes to be close to both trees and water.
The Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) is a diving duck which breeds across much of Canada and Alaska and winters along both coasts. This flock of distant Surf Scoters was at Haines, Alaska, in August, 2008.
Sexy, sexy Surf Scoter
Tags: scoters, seaducks
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SCOTER DUCK, Anas nigra, Wils. Amer. Orn., vol. viii. p. 135.
FULIGULA NIGRA, Bonap. Syn., p. 390.
OIDEMIA AMERICANA, Swains. American Scoter, Swains. and Rich. F. Bor. Amer., vol. ii. p. 450.
Surf Scoter: Male Black Scoter lacks white on head; female has pale gray lower face and throat. Male White-winged Scoter has white eye and wing patches; female has white wing patches.
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This scoter is a regular and fairly common migrant through southern Alberta from mid-April to late May, and again from late September to early November. Like many migrant species, it is more commonly seen in the fall than in the spring.
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.
Velvet Scoter, American White-winged Scoter deglandi, Asian White-winged Scoter stejnegeri
Bird Family :
Anatini - Typical ducks ...
Velvet scoter
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The Surf Scoter is often referred to as "skunk-head coot" by hunters, a reference to the male's strong black and white head patterning. They are most often observed along both the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, where they can be quite common.
Black Scoter
(Melanitta americana)
Status: Vagrant.
Last recorded on site in 2010
The Patuxent web-site provides more general information about this species.
Scoter, Surf Melanitta perspicillata Found: North America, Europe
Photographed by: 1, 4) Alan D Wilson Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California
2) Elaine R Wilson Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, ...
Surf Scoter at Arrowhead Marsh
Yesterday [November 7th 2007] Don Reinberg and I hit some spots in the East Bay. Arrowhead Marsh at high tide had lots of Surf Scoters and Greater Scaup, plus the usual clappering rails and five grebe species.
Surf Scoter Melanitta perspicillata. Rare in winter, spring, and fall in Tennessee Valley, Mountain, and Gulf Coast regions. Found primarily in offshore waters and less commonly on lakes.
Surf Scoter
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no
White-winged Scoter
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? no ...
Black Scoters
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White-winged Scoter
Wood Duck
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Benscoter, Brian W. 2006. Post-fire bryophyte establishment in a continental bog. Journal of Vegetation Science. 17: 647-652. [64980] 8. Berger-Bishop, Laurel E.; Harris, Reid N. 1996.
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, scoter, ...
Melanitta nigra - Common Scoter
Melanitta perspicillata - Surf Scoter (photo)
Melanitta fusca - White-winged Scoter
Bucephala
Bucephala clangula - Common Goldeneye
Bucephala albeola - Bufflehead ...
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) ...
While taxonomically, goldeneyes, 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, ...
They live primarily on fresh water. The pochards nest on fresh
water but winter on inland lakes and along the coasts. Eiders
and scoters nest in the far north and winter predominantly at sea
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 See also: Duck, Eider, Black scoter, Merganser, Canada Goose
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