Sentence examples for scoter from inspiring English sources

The scoter, a diving duck of the family Anatidae, is also called a sea coot.

Seabirds, such as the black-backed gull and the arctic tern, nest in great numbers on the coastal islands; waterfowl, such as the black and white velvet scoter duck, nest on inland lakes.

Species under threat * Birds whose decline is unexplained: Common scoter, cuckoo, hawfinch, kestrel, lesser redpoll, slavonian grebe, swift, tree pipit, whinchat and wood warbler.

Add the herring gulls flying overhead and the ducks (both long-tailed and black scoter varieties, he said) in the water, and his point was made: What had seemed a largely empty expanse was, in fact, brimming with life, even in winter.

Our common scoter population has fallen by more than 80% and almost 50% in the past 12 years.

When you saw that velvet scoter wading in Wales, were there witnesses?

Commonly encountered waterfowl are northern pintail (Anas acuta), scaup (Aythya species), and scoters (Melanitta species).

Other ducks, such as scoters and pochards, commonly dive to the bottom for their food, and cormorants, auks, and loons pursue fish underwater.

Waterbirds include gulls, scoters, cormorants, and loons; those most often seen on land are kingfishers, warblers, bobwhites, brown thrashers, sparrow hawks, yellow-shafted flickers, and whippoorwills.

She said that she and her husband had so far seen three kinds of gulls — herring, ring-billed, and greater black-backed — along with brants, scoters, double-crested cormorants, long-tail ducks, and a loon.

Sea life was my constant companion, from the swarms of jellyfish I had to gingerly push away with my paddle, to the flocks of surf scoters whose wings trilled as they cut the air, to the small harbor seal I didn't notice until I was almost upon it, whiskers and speckled nose barely breaking the waterline.