The surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) is a large sea duck native to North America. Adult males are almost entirely black with characteristic white...
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bill, which is feathered at the gape unlike the blocky bill base of the surf scoter. The white secondary flight feathers by which the species is named is...
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The scoters are stocky seaducks in the genus Melanitta. The drakes are mostly black and have swollen bills, the females are brown. They breed in the far...
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regular enough not to be considered rare, including the ring-billed gull, surf scoter and pectoral sandpiper. There is one endemic bird species found in Great...
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A surf scoter covered in oil as a result of the 2007 San Francisco Bay oil spill...
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tidelands support a variety of resident and migratory water birds such as surf scoter, black oystercatcher, diving ducks, and osprey. Refuge objectives are...
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White-winged scoter (Melanitta deglandi) (sometimes considered a subspecies of M. fusca) Stejneger's scoter (Melanitta stejnegeri) Surf scoter (Melanitta...
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near-threatened Surf scoter (negrón careto), Melanitta perspicillata (A) Velvet scoter (negrón especulado), Melanitta fusca White-winged scoter (negrón aliblanco)...
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frequent the beaches. Especially common are the razorbill, the surf scoter, the black scoter, the long-tailed duck, the red-throated loon, the common loon...
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skunk duck, the former being a vernacular name that it shared with the surf scoter and the common goldeneye (and even the American oystercatcher), a fact...
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sunbird Superciliaried hemispingus Superciliated wren Supertramp fantail Surf scoter Surfbird Surucua trogon Swahili sparrow Swainson's flycatcher Swainson's...
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1789) (E) 148 Surf scoter Melanitta perspicillata (Linnaeus, 1758) 149 Velvet scoter Melanitta fusca (Linnaeus, 1758) 150 White-winged scoter Melanitta deglandi...
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crabs by scurrying at the edge of the surf. Other birds that eat sand crabs include willets, godwits, surf scoters, blackbellied plovers, and curlews. The...
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red phalarope, sandpipers and plovers, sharp-shinned hawk, snow goose, surf scoter, swallows, woodpeckers and sapsuckers, and trumpeter and tundra swans...
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histrionicus (A) Surf scoter (brilleand), Melanitta perspicillata (A) Velvet scoter (sjøorre), Melanitta fusca (vulnerable) White-winged scoter (knoppsjøorre)...
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(E) EX Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata LC Velvet scoter, Melanitta fusca LC White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi LC Stejneger's scoter, Melanitta...
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American black duck, red-breasted merganser, white-winged scoter, surf scoter, black scoter, semipalmated sandpiper and ruddy turnstone "Migratory bird...
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histrionicus Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata (A) White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi (A) Stejneger's scoter, Melanitta stejnegeri Black scoter, Melanitta...
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histrionicus Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata (A) Velvet scoter, Melanitta fusca White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi (A) Stejneger's scoter, Melanitta...
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Harlequin duck, Histrionicus histrionicus (V) LC Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata (V) LC Black scoter, Melanitta americana (V) NT Long-tailed duck, Clangula...
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Lesser scaup King eider Common eider Harlequin duck Surf scoter White-winged scoter Black scoter Long-tailed duck Bufflehead Common goldeneye Barrow's...
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duck, Histrionicus histrionicus Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi Black scoter, Melanitta americana Long-tailed...
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histrionicus (A) Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi Common scoter, Melanitta nigra (A) Black scoter, Melanitta americana...
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(Clangula hyemalis), harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus), and surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata); and cormorants such as the double-crested...
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hooded mergansers, red-breasted mergansers, lesser scaup, surf scoters, white-winged scoters, common goldeneyes, and Barrow's goldeneyes. The lake also...
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Oiled birds, like this surf scoter, can quickly ingest harmful or fatal amounts of oil during their attempts to preen....
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(French: arlequin plongeur) – A Surf scoter Melanitta perspicillata (French: macreuse à front blanc) – A Velvet scoter Melanitta fusca (French: macreuse...
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Common eider, Somateria mollissima Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata (A) Velvet scoter, Melanitta fusca Common scoter, Melanitta nigra Long-tailed duck...
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Somateria fischeri (A) Stejneger's scoter, Melanitta stejnegeri (A) Steller's eider, Polysticta stelleri Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata (A) Taiga...
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Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata (A) Velvet scoter, Melanitta fusca (vulnerable) White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi (A) Stejneger's scoter,...
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