The white-winged scoter is described as the largest of the scoter variety, with its males sporting “a dashing, upturned comma of white” around its eyes and a bright orange-tipped bill.

Birds noted from Marconi Site overlook in Wellfleet included 2 black-headed gulls, 4 green-winged teal, 1,500 surf scoters, 740 white-winged scoters, 3,400 black scoters, 215 long-tailed ducks ...

The Centre for Wildlife Ecology is involved in a collaborative program studying scoters and their interactions with shellfish aquaculture in coastal British Columbia. This research addresses ...

Along with studies of the importance of herring spawn as a habitat feature for migrating surf scoters (see link), we have been investigating the role of herring spawn as a nutrient source for ...

A fork-tailed flycatcher was seen and photographed in Chatham but was not reported until it had been gone several days. This was the seventh Cape Cod record of this South American flycatcher.