| Scientific Name |  Click photo to enlarge. Photo by Dave Menke. |
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| Melanitta fusca (Linnaeus) - ATBI Database: Specimen Records | |||||
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| White-winged Scoter | * Rare Species Alert * | ||||
| Kingdom | Phylum | Class | Order | Family | |
| Animalia | Chordata | Aves | Anseriformes | Anatidae | |
| Animals | Chordates | Birds | Ducks, Geese and Swans | Ducks, Geese and Swans | |
Scoters are mostly ducks of the ocean coast or the Great Lakes, but they occasionally show up on area lakes and reservoirs during the winter and migration.
DISTRIBUTION
In Park: The single park record is of an immature bird in the sewage treatment ponds in Cades Cove, mid-November 1989. Another immature bird was seen two miles outside of the park in January of 1942 near Townsend, Tennessee.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Photographs
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service photo by Dave Menke.
Text
Paul E. Super, 2005.
Web page
REFERENCES
Gough, G. A., Sauer, J. R., Iliff, M. Patuxent Bird Identification InfoCenter. 1998. Version 97.1. Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, Laurel, MD.
