scaup

1 In addition to Canada geese and mallards, in recent weeks Birky Pond has hosted hooded mergansers, bufflehead, redhead ducks, canvasbacks, northern shovelers, scaup and ring-necked ducks, to name a few.

2 In flight, the dark wings are different from the white-edged wings of scaup.

3 The light band near the trailing edges of the wings runs almost to the tip in the greater scaup, but only about half way in the lesser.

4 Skoggaggany ... is merely the Norwegian for a scaup duck one Norwegian translation says, in paraphrase, “we called it Skoggaggany because we thought it sounded so Norwegian”.

5 In addition, special regulations apply to scaup.

6 Hunters in the North Zone and Open Water Zone will be allowed to take two scaup for the first 45 days of the season and one scaup for the final 15 days, while hunters in the South Zone will be allowed one scaup for the first 15 days and 2 scaup for the final 45.

7 "You can have a ball hunting divers, especially on Wells Pool, where there's up to 20,000 scaup," Moore said.

8 Nest and Eggs—The nest and eggs are the same as the scaups.

9 Among the migrants that may now find the refuge less appealing are ruddy ducks, hooded mergansers, scaups and canvasbacks.

10 Four redheads at Chestnut Hill Reservoir in Chestnut Hill four more redheads at Jamaica Pond in Jamaica Plain, and a lesser scaup at Leverett Pond in Boston.

11 Color—The color and markings are the same as the American scaup, with the exception that the metallic sheen of the head, as already mentioned, is purple.

12 On the water, body size and head shape distinguish them from scaups and redheads.

13 “Oops, there goes one,” he says, referring to a lesser scaup duck nearby.

14 And the lesser scaup is beautiful.

15 Nest and Eggs—The same as the American scaup.

16 Thursday morning flocks of bluebills, including both greater and lesser scaup, worked the area from first light.

17 Also spotted, but in fewer numbers, were snow geese, buffleheads, redheads, goldeneyes, American widgeon, ruddy, ring-necked, canvasbacks, scaup and wood ducks.

18 In England people have been known to call scaups unfit for food, but here, 87 under the perfectly awful appetites that we have developed, the Skoggaggany soup has very little chance.

19 Greater scaup prefer large open water areas; lesser scaup often use marshes and ponds.

20 She showed black dots bobbing upon silver lanes, which were sea-duck of various kinds—scaup, long tail, scoter, and the rest.

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