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velvet scoter
noun
- a European sea duck, Melanitta fusca, the male of which has a black plumage with white patches below the eyes and on the wings
Example Sentences
Among sea ducks, the long-tailed duck and the velvet scoter are listed as “vulnerable”, as is the pochard.
This is not always the case however, and for other species such as Bewick's swan and velvet scoter, it looks like declines in the UK are matched by those elsewhere across Europe.
White′wing, the velvet scoter, scurf-duck: the chaffinch.—adj.
The Velvet Scoter, an inhabitant of the extreme northern regions of Asia and Europe, appears in the British Isles as a winter visitor only, being sometimes seen on the eastern coast of Scotland, in large flocks, but not generally extending its migration to our southern shores except in the severest weather.
The Velvet Scoter is also included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked as occurring in Guernsey; but there seems to be no other evidence of its having occurred in the Islands; and a mistake may easily have been made, however, as the Velvet Scoter occurs tolerably frequently on the south coast of Devon, though never in such numbers as the Common Scoter; it may, of course, occur in the Channel Islands occasionally.
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