The black scoter is deep ebony, with a bill that seems dipped in luminescent orange butter. Male surf scoters are sometimes called “skunkheads” because of their black and white pattern.

Wood duck, gadwall, Eurasian wigeon, American wigeon, American black duck, mallard, blue-winged teal, green-winged teal, northern shoveler, northern pintail ...

The black scoter is most commonly seen on Lake Erie, with the surf scoter as the second most common. ... Long-tailed ducks can dive to over 200 feet, and white-winged scoters nearly as deep.

Here are this week’s bird sightings from the Western Voice of Audubon: A brant and 38 black scoters were at Ludlow Reservoir. A Lapland longspur was in Amherst. Seven brant, 59 long-tailed ducks ...

Various Areas in Exeter, New Hampshire: Red-shouldered Hawk, Morning Dove, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Downy Woodpecker, Hairy Woodpecker, Blue Jay, Black-capped Chickadee, Tufted Titmouse, Red ...

Sea birds like long-tailed ducks can be seen on Minnesota's northern waters like Lake Superior in winter. Listen for their distinctive calls, which some describe as a yodel.

A Southcentral Alaska sea duck hunt becomes an Abbott and Costello routine with a variety of ... (surf scoter, white-winged scoter, and black scoter). On this trip, the black scoters were called ...

The following sightings were reported to Newburyport Birders this week. Report your sightings to Newburyport Birders at newburyportbirders.com or by calling 978-204-2976. River Road and Mill Pond ...

Take a little black duck called Melanitta nigra, the black scoter or common scoter. The drake is the only duck with plumage so black as to seem shoe-polished, with a smidgen of orange on his bill ...

There are three species of North American scoters: surf scoter (Melanitta perspicillata), white-winged scoter (Melanitta fusca) and the aforementioned black scoter. They're heavy-bodied ducks with ...

About a week before Thanksgiving, a neighbor alerted me to a black scoter that was hanging out in the small pond across from the Four Columns Inn in the village of Newfane. I hurried up the road and ...