The surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) is a large sea duck native to North America. Adult males are almost entirely black with characteristic white patches on the forehead and the nape and adult females are slightly smaller and browner. Surf scoters breed in Northern Canada and Alaska and winter along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts of North America. Those diving ducks mainly feed on benthic invertebrates, mussels representing an important part of their diet.
^BirdLife International (2018). "Melanitta perspicillata". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22680441A132528934. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22680441A132528934.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
The surfscoter (Melanitta perspicillata) is a large sea duck native to North America. Adult males are almost entirely black with characteristic white...
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...
white-winged scoters, along with the surfscoter, are placed in the subgenus Melanitta, distinct from the subgenus Oidemia to which the black scoter and common...
regular enough not to be considered rare, including the ring-billed gull, surfscoter and pectoral sandpiper. There is one endemic bird species found in Great...
(Melanitta deglandi) (sometimes considered a subspecies of M. fusca) Surfscoter (Melanitta perspicillata) Genus Bucephala, the goldeneyes. These are...
frequent the beaches. Especially common are the razorbill, the surfscoter, the black scoter, the long-tailed duck, the red-throated loon, the common loon...
skunk duck, the former being a vernacular name that it shared with the surfscoter and the common goldeneye (and even the American oystercatcher), a fact...
red phalarope, sandpipers and plovers, sharp-shinned hawk, snow goose, surfscoter, swallows, woodpeckers and sapsuckers, and trumpeter and tundra swans...
Lesser scaup King eider Common eider Harlequin duck Surfscoter White-winged scoter Black scoter Long-tailed duck Bufflehead Common goldeneye Barrow's...
or 'pair', cf. neeshauog, 'they go in pairs.' pishaug, 'young female Surfscoter,' (Melanitta perspicillata). samp, 'porridge of ground maize kernels...
(E) Surfscoter (macreuse à front blanc), Melanitta perspicillata White-winged scoter (macreuse à ailes blanches), Melanitta deglandi Black scoter (macreuse...
regular enough to not be considered rare. These include ring-billed gull, surfscoter and pectoral sandpiper. Rare American passerines include red-eyed vireo...
(Clangula hyemalis), harlequin duck (Histrionicus histrionicus), and surfscoter (Melanitta perspicillata); and cormorants such as the double-crested...
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