Scaup Ducks in Flight, Female and Male
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| A pair of Scaup Ducks, also known as "Bluebills" or "Broadbills," flying low over water. The two kinds of Scaup Ducks are bay Ducks that look black at both ends and white in the middle when sitting on the water. Sometimes when they raft in large numbers, the water fairly boils with the diving and swimming birds. The Greater Scaup and Lesser Scaup are very much alike in appearance, but the Greater has a greenish-glossed head; the head of the Lesser is glossed with purple. Both species nest principally in Canada. The Greater Scaup is the winter Scaup of the North Atlantic coast from southern New England to North Carolina. It also winters along the Pacific coast, and some migrate through the interior to the Gulf of Mexico. |
