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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 ...
The velvet scoter is 51–56 cm (20–22 in) in length and has a wingspan of 90–99 cm (35–39 in). It is a relatively large sea duck with a thick neck, a long broad bill and a pointed tail. The plumage of the male is glossy black with large white wing patches and small white patches behind the eye. The bill is partly orange.
The common scoter (Melanitta nigra) is a large sea duck, 43–54 cm (17–21 in) in length, which breeds over the far north of Europe and the Palearctic east to the Olenyok River. The black scoter (M. americana) of North America and eastern Siberia was formerly considered to be a subspecies.
This is a list of the breeds of domestic duck which have official recognition at national or international level. [1]Most breeds of duck derive from the wild mallard, Anas platyrhynchos, while a small minority are descendants of the Muscovy duck, Cairina moschata.
The adult male (drake) has a black bill, a chestnut red head and neck, a black breast, a grayish back, black rump, and a blackish brown tail. The drake's sides, back, and belly are white with fine vermiculation resembling the weave of a canvas, which gave rise to the bird's common name. [8] The bill is blackish and the legs and feet are bluish ...
Linnaeus was not particularly familiar with the winter plumages of either the auk or the duck, and appears to have confused the two species. [3] Other old names include rotch, rotche, [4] bullbird, [5] and sea dove, although the latter sometimes refers to a relative, the black guillemot. [6] They breed on islands in the high Arctic.
African black duck. The African black duck is a black duck with pronounced white marks on its back, a dark bill, and orange legs and feet. A purpish-blue speculum is often visible, especially in flight. It lives in central and southern Africa. It is also known as the black river duck, or (A. s. leucostigma) West African black duck or Ethiopian ...
The Falkland steamer duck measures between 61 and 74 cm in length and has a wingspan of 84 to 94 cm. [9] [10] It is a fairly large species of duck with males weighing between 3300 and 4800 g, and females between 2900 and 4196 g. [10] The male's plumage is brown to grey with a contrasting light grey-white head. They have a very distinctive ...