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Female of both species are very similar and best distinguished by head shape; White-winged Scoters tend to have "two-stepped" profile between the bill and the head, compared to the long "Roman nose" profile of Stejneger's Scoter similar to that of a common eider. [4] Additionally, the feathering along the base of the upper mandible forms a ...
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velvet scoter Male Female Melanitta fusca (Linnaeus, 1758) eastern Turkey, Europe as far south as Great Britain, and on the Black and Caspian Sea: Size: Habitat: Diet: VU white-winged scoter Male Female Melanitta deglandi (Bonaparte, 1850) North America: Size: Habitat: Diet: LC Stejneger's scoter Male. Melanitta stejnegeri (Ridgway, 1887)
The black and the white-winged scoters are physically very similar to the surf scoter but in flight, the surf scoter is the only one with completely dark wings. [12] Like all sea ducks, the surf scoter becomes flightless during the simultaneous molt of its flight feathers. This vulnerable period happens usually in late July through early August ...
White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi (RI) ... the female (the hen) is smaller and much less colorful than the male (the tom). With wingspans of 4.9–5.9 feet (1.5 ...
White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi; ... the female (the hen) is smaller than the male (the tom) and much less colorful. With wingspans of 1.5–1.8 meters ...
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.
Surf scoter, Melanitta perspicillata (NC) White-winged scoter, Melanitta deglandi (NC) Black scoter, Melanitta americana (NC) Long-tailed duck, Clangula hyemalis (NC) Bufflehead, Bucephala albeola; Common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula; Barrow's goldeneye, Bucephala islandica (NC) Hooded merganser, Lophodytes cucullatus (Unc) Common merganser ...