Ducks, Geese and Swans (Anatidae)
Black Scoter (Melanitta nigra) - HBW 1, p. 622
French: Macreuse noire
German: Trauerente
Spanish: Negrón Común
Other common names: Common Scoter; American Scoter (americana)
Taxonomy: Anas nigra Linnaeus, 1758, Lapland, England.
Races sometimes considered full species. Two subspecies recognized.
Subspecies and Distribution:
- nigra (Linnaeus, 1758) - Iceland and N Britain E to R Olenek, Siberia.
- americana (Swainson, 1832) - R Yana, Siberia, E to Alaska; E Canada to Newfoundland.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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A pair swimming and diving twice. Locality Notsuke Peninsula, Shibetsu District, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp americana)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 23 sec 3 -
A female swimming Locality Wigeon House, Dunkirk, Nottinghamshire, England, Great Britain (ssp nigra)
Josep del Hoyo 29 October 2005 7 years ago 30 sec 2.9 -
Three females and two males sleeping and preening on the water. Locality Notsuke Peninsula, Shibetsu District, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp americana)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 22 sec 2.8 -
Three females and two males sleeping and preening on the water. Locality Notsuke Peninsula, Shibetsu District, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp americana)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 22 sec 2.8 -
Three females and two males sleeping and preening on the water. Locality Notsuke Peninsula, Shibetsu District, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp americana)
Josep del Hoyo 4 February 2010 2 years ago 22 sec 2.8 -
A female swimming away Locality Femundsmarka National Park, Norway (ssp nigra)
Eric Roualet 31 July 2007 2 years ago 5 sec 2.3
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Locality Cape Nosappu, Nemuro Peninsula, Hokkaido, Japan (ssp ssp americana )
AurélienAudevard 10 February 2010 3 years ago 3 -
A pair swimming.
Locality Zoo Wuppertal, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (ssp nigra)
Josep del Hoyo 26 March 1993 45 weeks ago 2
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Group of birds swimming and calling Locality Hokkaido, Japan
(ssp americana)
Helmut Schenkel Brunner 4 February 2011 1 year ago 5
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