| The eight endangered species of birds are common scoter, hen harrier, grey partridge, corncrake, red-necked phalarope, nightjar, roseate tern and corn bunting. |
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| We defined a scoter nest as a depression with either down, eggs, or contour feathers identified as White-winged or Surf scoter. |
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| The female is a brown bird with pale cheeks, very similar to female black scoter. |
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| Among the ever-increasing numbers observed were the velvet scoter, red kite, kingfishers, cuckoos, buzzards and the spotted redshank. |
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| Numbers of common scoter also swell during the winter and hopefully some velvet scoter will make it this far south. |
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| Careful scanning produced three velvet scoter amongst hundreds of common scoter, a long tailed duck and a scaup. |
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| Huge populations of the sea duck, common scoter, spend winters feeding in shallow waters off eastern Ireland, Lancashire and North Wales. |
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| A long-tailed duck flew past Llanddulas on Sunday, while on Anglesey a female velvet scoter and a couple of little gulls have been at Lligwy Bay. |
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| Among waterfowl, scoter populations have fallen by more than 80 percent and scaup by more than 50 percent. |
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| The scoters also love small sea clams and Crane's Beach is Sea Clam City making it the hot spot for scoter shooting. |
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| Although the common scoter is a winter visitor to the UK, there are some breeding pairs in the north of Scotland. |
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| Nearby Morfa Bychan beach has also provided some good birdwatching with long tailed duck, scaup and velvet scoter among flocks of common scoter. |
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| It said the black grouse may become extinct within 20 years, the greater horsehoe bat would migrate north and the song thrush and common scoter suffer. |
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| This species can be distinguished from other scoters, apart from black scoter, by the lack of white anywhere on the drake and the more extensive pale areas on the female. |
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| Black scoter and common scoter have diagnosably distinct vocalisations. |
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| Due to this development and an oil spill off the coast of Wales in 1996, questions about the common scoter population have been asked in the UK Parliament. |
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| According to the MONARCH report, the three species most likely to disappear from Wales by 2080 are common scoter, black grouse, and a fern called oblong woodsia. |
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| Common scoter are a small seaduck, the male black with a yellow and black bill, the female mainly dark brown with lighter brown face pattern and light underparts. |
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| Gunners have a choice of black, white-wing or surf scoter decoys. |
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| Whooper Swans at RSPB Conwy and on Llanrwst floodwater and a Common Scoter on Abergele's Pentre Mawr lake were all unusual. |
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| A Velvet Scoter was an unseasonal find off Aberdysynni and Monday's southerly winds brought an Arctic Skua to Criccieth. |
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| Another Surfie is off Pensarn with Velvet Scoter and Scaup, and three more Scaup are at RSPB Conwy. |
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| The effects of disturbance caused by boating on survival and behaviour of Velvet Scoter Melanitta fusca ducklings. |
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| Last year's rare birds spotted in Teesmouth and East Cleveland included Isabelline Wheatear, Eastern Crowned Warbler, Black Scoter and Black Winged Pratincole. |
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| Another Surf Scoter, presumably from this overwintering flock, was seen from the Great Orme with thousands of Common Scoters and a few Velvet Scoters. |
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