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  • noun Plural form of scoter.

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Examples

  • Diving ducks called scoters congregate just offshore, and Horgan points to red floats nearby - markers for crab traps, he says.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Mallards, mergansers and dippers arrived, then black scoters, a pair of northern flickers, a northern harrier and a single western meadowlark.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Rhodes guides hunters for eiders and scoters and recommends Full choke to put the maximum number of pellets on target.

    Why You Miss Ducks (And Other Insights From Our Waterfowl Guide Survey) 2009

  • Mallards, mergansers and dippers arrived, then black scoters, a pair of northern flickers, a northern harrier and a single western meadowlark.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Eider were feeding alongside long-tailed ducks and common scoters, and the drake eiders were in full breeding plumage with their dove-like cooing calls echoing across the open sea.

    Country diary: Burghead, Moray 2011

  • Mallards, mergansers and dippers arrived, then black scoters, a pair of northern flickers, a northern harrier and a single western meadowlark.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Right now, there's a wonderful variety of ducks and geese at Beavertail, including eiders (Somateria mollissima), brants (Branta bernicla), and Black scoters (Melanitta nigra).

    "You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..." greygirlbeast 2010

  • Mallards, mergansers and dippers arrived, then black scoters, a pair of northern flickers, a northern harrier and a single western meadowlark.

    Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011

  • Right now, there's a wonderful variety of ducks and geese at Beavertail, including eiders (Somateria mollissima), brants (Branta bernicla), and Black scoters (Melanitta nigra).

    "You will choke, choke on the air you try to breathe..." greygirlbeast 2010

  • Indigenous people in Canada are exempt from this restriction and can at any time take various auk species and scoters (Melanitta spp.) for human food and clothing.

    Management and conservation of marine mammals and seabirds in the Arctic 2009

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