Foraging behaviors and prey depletion by wintering scoters in baynes sound, british columbia: inferring food availability and habitat quality... Clam capture success of both scoter species and foraging effort of Surf Scoters were unrelated to variation in clam density, while White-winged Scoter foraging effort was negatively related to clam density....
Data from: wintering sea duck distribution along the atlantic coast of the united states...Mergini) are limited, current evidence suggests that four of the most common species wintering along the eastern coast of the United States—long-tailed duck Clangula hyemalis, white-winged scoter Melanitta fusca, surf scoter Melanitta perspicillata, and black scoter Melanitta americana—may be declining, while the status of American common eider Somateria...
Sensitivity of the difference between allowable and observed harvest to individual demographic parameters as measured by the slope of linear relationships between the harvest difference and standardized values of the demographic parameters, where greater absolute slope indicates higher sensitivity.... (A) western surf scoter, (B) white-winged scoter.
North american breeding and winter ranges of american common eider (sometaria mollissima dresseri), eastern and western populations of black scoter (melanitta americana) and surf scoter (m. perspicillata), white-winged scoter (m. fusca), and long-tailed duck (clangula hyemalis).... perspicillata), white-winged scoter (M....
