Surf Scoter - Huntington Beach California
by Ram Vasudev
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Surf Scoter - Huntington Beach California
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Ram Vasudev
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Male Surf Scoter (Melanitta perspicillata) in morning light, Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve, Huntington Beach, California.
Male Surf Scoters are entirely black with a white patch on the forehead and a larger white triangle on the nape. They have large bills, which are swollen on the top and truncated on the sides, with black feathers extending to near the nostrils. The bill is multicolored white, red, yellow and black, appearing mostly orange from a distance. The legs and feet are reddish-orange with dusky webs, and the iris is white.
Surf Scoters occur only in North America. They breed on shallow freshwater lakes found in the closed and open boreal forests of northern Canada and Alaska. Female Surf Scoters prefer to nest in brushy tundra or wooded areas near a pond, bog or stream and lay an average of 5-8 eggs.
Western Surf Scoters molt along the coast of Alaska and British Columbia, and in the Bering Sea. During migration, they use coastal estuaries, inshore ocean areas and occasionally freshwater habitats near the coast. They winter in shallow marine coastal waters along coastal North America, as in in this photo, and south to the northern Gulf of Mexico coast. Info from ducks.org
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