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white-winged scoter

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Also known as: Melanitta deglandi, Melanitta fusca, velvet scoter

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distribution

In scoter
The white-winged, or velvet, scoter (M. deglandi, or fusca) is nearly circumpolar in distribution north of the Equator, as is the black, or common, scoter (M., or sometimes Oidemia, nigra). The black scoter is the least abundant in the New World. All three species of scoter…
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reproduction

In anseriform: Reproductive behaviour
…is in the velvet or white-winged scoter (Melanitta fusca), which takes 15 days to lay its usual clutch of nine eggs. Sperm remains viable in a female mallard for a similar period, so it is probable that copulation prior to egg laying is sufficient to fertilize the whole clutch. Clutch…
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