Selby records a single instance of the Scaup having bred so far south as Sutherlandshire, a female having been seen in the month of June, accompanied by a young one.
The Scaup is so called from its feeding on 'scaup', a northern word for a bed of shellfish.
It eventually proved to be an adult male Scaup Duck, but what had induced it to remain there all the summer in the society of a bird of a different tribe, is a question which I did not attempt to solve.
Its food is less exclusively of a fishy nature than that of the Scaup Duck, consequently its flesh is more palatable, being, in the estimation of French gastronomists, un rA'ti parfait.
The Scaup Duck is very abundant in Holland during winter, covering the inland seas with immense flocks.
The scaup came down the sky in dark masses, giving a rippling purr as they flew.
Norwegian for a scaup duck [one Norwegian translation says, in paraphrase, "we called it Skoggaggany because we thought it sounded so Norwegian".
There was also a large brew of a meritorious composition known as Skoggaggany soup; the name is a little difficult to pronounce, but the soup does not taste anything like it; it is merely the Norwegian for a scaup duck.
Either one of the three common American scaup ducks.
The Scaup Duck inhabits, during summer, the Arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and America, drawing southwards in winter almost to the tropics.
Scaup Ducks begin to arrive off our more northern coasts in September, but not until a month later in the south.
In its habits generally, it very closely resembles the Scaup Duck, a species whose company it often keeps.
The Scaup Duck arrives at its Arctic breeding-grounds with the break-up of the ice.
The food of the Scaup Duck consists largely of molluscs, but crustaceans and marine plants are also eaten by this species.
Ruddy ducks andscaup are particularly vulnerable during winter on large river systems with heavy oil transport traffic.
Hens are silent; drake lesser scaup purr; drake greater scaup have a discordant scaup, scaup.
Greater scaup prefer large open water areas; lesser scaup often use marshes and ponds.
Except for the wing marks, greater and lesser scaup appear nearly identical in the field.
The three North American species are: the greater scaupduck (Aythya marila, var.
Tufted poachard, a scaupduck (Aythya, or Fuligula cristata), native of Europe and Asia.
Defn: Either one of the three common American scaup ducks.
The nesting habits are the same as those of the Greater Scaup and the eggs are similar but smaller.
Similar to the Lesser Scaup in size and plumage, except that it has a narrow chestnut collar around the neck, the back is black instead of barred with white, and the speculum is gray instead of white.
Like the division to which it belongs, the scaup is a heavy thick-set duck, and among the least eatable of its kind; yet hundreds are taken by the fishermen in their nets.
The scaup is another sea-duck which makes its appearance in autumn in large numbers, resorting to low oozy coasts, where it finds its food.
It is an expert diver, and a flock of hundreds of scaup may sometimes be seen to immerse themselves at the same moment.
The scaup duck may be tamed so far as to remain sociably among the domestic ones, will eat bread soaked in water, oats, and barley; in short, all that is given to common ducks.
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