#1132 · 🐦 birds

White-winged Scoter

🇳🇱 Amerikaanse Grote Zee-eend ·Melanitta deglandi

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Steven McGrath · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Joanne Muis Redwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Jeffrey H. Skevington · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Jing-Yi Lu · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Bill Bouton · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © andrewdressel · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Wendy Feltham · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Paul Reeves · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The white-winged scoter ( Melanitta deglandi ) is a large sea duck. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek melas "black" and netta "duck". The species name commemorates French ornithologist Côme Damien Degland.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,925iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
11,925 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Charles Lucien Bonaparte in 1850 (176 years ago).