The Common Scoter is included in Professor Ansted's list, and marked only as occurring in Guernsey.
It may be distinguished from the Common Scoter by its larger size, and yet more strikingly by the conspicuous white bar across the wing.
In habits and food the Surf Scoter resembles the common species, deriving its name from the pertinacity with which it selects, as its feeding-ground, a sandy beach over which surf rolls.
The nest of the Scoter is described as being like that of the Eider Duck, and similarly located.
The effect ofscoter duck predation on a clam population in Dabob Bay, Washington.
It is owing to this fact that during Lent in Catholic countries the flesh of the scoter is allowed to be eaten.
The surf scoter is the rarest of the three British species, and is intermediate in size between the two last.
The scoter is entirely black; it dives remarkably well, and can remain a long time under water.
The common scoter is a winter visitant to our coasts, sometimes coming in such numbers that the waters between the eastern counties and Holland seem covered with them.
The common American species are the velvet, or white-winged, scoter (O.
John shot a fine male of the Scoter Duck, which is scarce here.
This is the White-winged Coot or Scoter just mentioned above, [OE]demia deglandi.
This Scoter is a late breeder, its eggs not being laid before the end of June, or even early in July.
The usual note of the Scoter is a harsh kurr, modulated into a more musical sound by the drake during the pairing season.
The Scoter is an inhabitant of Arctic Europe and West Siberia, visiting more southern latitudes in winter.
Odd pairs of this Scoter are occasionally met with in our area during the summer, and it has been suggested that the species even breeds within the British limits; no direct evidence, however, is forthcoming.
The Scoter is found most abundantly off our eastern coasts, from the Orkneys to the Goodwins, and thence, but in smaller numbers, along the English Channel.
The Velvet Scoter breeds in the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of Europe and Asia, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and winters in temperate latitudes.
It may be readily distinguished from the Common Scoter by its very conspicuous white wing bar, and less observable white spot under the eye; otherwise it closely resembles it in general colouration.
The Common Scoter begins to arrive with us in September, and the migration continues right through the following month.
The Scoter flies well and rapidly, and is not unfrequently seen in the air, especially when in flocks.
On the other hand, the Velvet Scoter is not such a strictly maritime species, being frequently found on inland waters, and even, during winter, is partial to wandering up tidal rivers and visiting lakes.
Even during the breeding season the Common Scoter does not retire far from the sea.
Like the Eider the Scoter is fond of working shorewards with the tide, feeding as it comes, and retiring from the land again when its appetite is satisfied.
This Scoter is an adept diver; in fact, almost all its food is obtained in that way.
The most remarkable are the Velvet Duck (Oidemia fusca), the Common Black Scoter (O.
The Black Scoter (Oidemia nigra) is almost as large as the Common Wild Duck, but is shorter and more thickly made.
On the coasts of Picardy, where the Black Scoter abounds during winter, very destructive means are used for their capture.
The Black Scoter makes but a poor figure on aristocratic tables.
The Black Scoter arrives on our shores about the middle of autumn in considerable flocks, and is seen on all our western coast during winter, but is still more abundant on the French coast.
The Black Scoter delights in the salt-water pools adjacent to the sea, and the sheltered creeks on the coast, in which they find a refuge against storms.
The Black Scoter is also the object of individual sport when it does not arrive in these immense flocks.
The Black Scoter passes its life on the surface of the water, and never ventures on the land except when driven by stress of weather, or for the purpose of making its nest in the marshes.
The neighborhoods of marshes and ponds are its haunts, and in the Hudson Bay region the Scoter nests in June and July.
The specimen we give of the American Scoter is one of unusual rarity and beauty of plumage.
The Scoter has as many names as characteristics, being called the Sea Coot, the Butter-billed, and the Hollow-billed Coot.
Because of this striking color characteristic the Surf Scoter is frequently called the Target Head, by the California hunters.
The note of the Surf Scoter is to me the most pleasing of all the ducks.
Mr. Nelson states that the Surf Scoter appears in the vicinity of St. Michaels, Alaska, about the middle of May and nests commonly in the marshes of the delta of the Yukon river.
This Scoter is an American species and is only an accidental visitor to European coasts.
The Surf Scoter is also known by several other popular names, such as the Surf Duck, the Surf or Sea Coot and, not infrequently, the Booby.
Surf Scoter Common along the coast from Laguna to Balboa.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scoter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
