Black Scoter
Melanitta americana(Swainson, WJ, 1832)
English (US) Black Scoter
The Black Scoter (Melanitta americana) is a bird species documented in the AviList Global Avian Checklist. On BirdGuides.io, 0 professional guides specialise in helping birdwatchers observe this species. It belongs to the family Anatidae (Ducks, Swans, and Geese) in the order Anseriformes.
Range: breeds Yana River to Kamchatka (eastern Siberia), Alaska eastward to northwestern Yukon; eastern Northwest Territories and southwestern Nunavut to Newfoundland (central to eastern Canada); winters to central Japan (western North Pacific coast); Aleutian Islands, eastern North Pacific coast to central California; western North Atlantic coast from Newfoundland to northern FloridaRange summary from AviList, in English.
- Scientific name
- Melanitta americana
- Order
- Anseriformes
- IUCN Red List
- Near Threatened
- English (US)
- Black Scoter
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1832)
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Add Your ExpertiseTaxonomic history
- First described as
- Oidemia Americana
- Described by
- (Swainson, WJ, 1832)
- Type locality
- Hudson Bay.
- Original description
- Fauna Boreali-Americana; or the zoology of the northern parts of British America: containing descriptions of the objects of natural history collected on the late northern land expeditions under command of Captain Sir John Franklin, R.N. Part second, the birds pt.2 p.450
Nomenclatural data from the AviList checklist, quoted in the language of the original sources.
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