How To Use Scoter In A Sentence
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The Red-Breasted Merganser is also a bold world traveler, plying icy waters where usually only scoters and eiders dare to tread.
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Eider were feeding alongside long-tailed ducks and common scoters, and the drake eiders were in full breeding plumage with their dove-like cooing calls echoing across the open sea.
Country diary: Burghead, Moray
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The ecologist added: We believe climate change may be a factor because warmer winters and springs could lead to aquatic insects such as mayflies and caddis flies hatching earlier in the season and not being available to the scoter ducklings when they hatch out themselves.
BBC News - Home
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Fall and winter bring storms, yes, but also lines of scoters and an occasional spouting whale.
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Right now, there's a wonderful variety of ducks and geese at Beavertail, including eiders (Somateria mollissima), brants (Branta bernicla), and Black scoters (Melanitta nigra).
"You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..."
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Sea ducks like scoters and eiders are also divers.
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Judging by the density of this pattern and how precisely it's centered on the surf scoter (which was 25 to 30 yards from the shooter when Coats took the photo), there's no question about what happened to the duck milliseconds after the camera shutter closed.
The Ultimate Guide to Patterning Your Shotgun for Waterfowl
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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Wintering waterfowl include pintail, cinnamon teal, American widgeon, surf scoter and ruddy duck.
Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve, California
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Nesting female scoters rely on nutrient reserves stored before nesting for completion of incubation, but rely on exogenous nutrients for egg formation.
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When busy with birdlife, more than 23,000 birds, including 28 species of wildfowl, have been recorded here - including rare types such as scaup, smew, long-tailed duck, scoter and Bewick's swan.
The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed
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Duck sometimes has these patches obscure, when uniform face is best distinction from other two scoters.
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Both of these types are plentiful on the Cape, as are sea ducks, such as scoters and eiders, viewable from many vantage points.
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I saw the usual assortment of indistinguishable scoters, some oldsquaws, a small flock of brant, and a northern gannet.
Archive 2009-04-01
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Below we report the geographic distribution of long-tailed ducks, eiders, scoters, glaucous gulls, and Pacific loons with respect to month and ice cover.
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Other interlopers included 2 red-breasted mergansers, a single white-winged scoter, and a common loon.
Archive 2009-05-01
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All of these incidents will force a scoter user onto the road which may mean risking their lives as drivers seem to think that because they are in a vehicle, that they always have the right of way.
Archive 2009-10-01
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Research associate Ron Therrien shows us around, pointing out such species as the ruddy duck, the Harlequin and the surf scoter.
Duck, duck, owl: Patuxent research center is for the birds
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This area affords excellent views of Burrard Inlet and rafts of offshore ducks. scoters, scaup, mergansers, goldeneye and buffleheads are all good possibilities.
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Sea ducks like scoters and eiders are also divers.
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But the duck's name is scoter, not scooter as our solution said 1 August, page 28, G2.
Corrections and clarifications
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Just offshore some mallard and pintail – birds usually found on fresh water – were bobbing up and down on the waves, along with two truly marine ducks, an eider and a common scoter.
Birdwatch: Black redstart
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Predominant waterfowl species that breed in the region include the lesser scaup, pintail, scoter, and wigeon.
Upper Yukon Tayga Province (Bailey)
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Just offshore some mallard and pintail – birds usually found on fresh water – were bobbing up and down on the waves, along with two truly marine ducks, an eider and a common scoter.
Birdwatch: Black redstart
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There are 100Hevi-Shot No. 2 pellets, fired from a 3½-inch 12-gauge load, in the estimated 30-inch circle I drew around the densest part of this pattern (I used the scoter for scale; they average 19 inches long from beak to tail).
The Ultimate Guide to Patterning Your Shotgun for Waterfowl
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The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting.
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In Washington from mid-October to early May, long-tailed ducks are usually found in deep salt water, sometimes intermingled with scoters.