You never forget your first white-winged scoter, a big black sea duck with a white curve above each eye resembling the Nike ...

The Surf Scoter Is A Small Sea Duck that typically arrives in Southern California in the fall. By winter, they are the most common bird found in the San Diego Bay. Males are mostly black with a white, ...

We have never had a better sense of the timescales of Earth, of the ebb and flow of life across the planet, the rise and fall of species (not least, in eventual prospect, our own). Measured against ...

They glide on the sea looking for food in perfectly synchronized rows, our birds of the week are the velvet scoters. The velvet scoter is a large and powerful sea duck. It can grow up to 58 ...

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Conservationists believe they have identified the cause of a decline in numbers of a rare duck. In the UK, common scoters breed at only a few locations in the Flow Country of Caithness and Sutherland ...