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blue dot    Common Eider
blue dot    King Eider
blue dot    Spectacled Eider
blue dot    Steller's Eider
blue dot    Black Scoter
blue dot    White-winged Scoter
blue dot    Surf Scoter
blue dot    Barrow's Goldeneye
blue dot    Common Goldeneye
blue dot    Bufflehead
blue dot    Long-tailed Duck (Oldsquaw)
blue dot    Harlequin Duck
blue dot    Common Merganser
blue dot    Red-breasted Merganser
blue dot    Hooded Merganser
The Sea Duck Joint Venture
Meet the Sea Ducks

Black Scoter - malehead  Black Scoter
Photo: Tim Bowman, USFWS         Photo: USFWS

Black Scoter (Melanitta nigra americana)
blue dot Sea Duck Information Series
blue dot Identification and Basic Life History
blue dot Range Map
blue dot Species Status Summaries (pdf 732kb)
blue dot Black Scoter Satellite Telemetry
blue dot Black Scoter Studies in Alaska (pdf 500kb)
 blue dot Related Web sites
     Alaska Dept. Fish and Game - Black Scoter Information
      More natural history
      Birdscapes article on Satellite Telemetry (pdf 439kb)
      An on-line audio-visual library