Surf Scoter - Melanitta perspicillata
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Surf Scoters are found in North America. They winter along the eastern and western coasts and breed in northern Canada and Alaska. According to one source, the San Francisco Bay region supports the largest wintering population of Surf Scoters in the Pacific Flyway. Some of the best places in the East Bay, is at the Martin Luther Regional Park in Oakland, Miller Knox Park in Point Richmond, and the Cesar Chavez Park in Berkeley.
Surf Scoters eat mostly Aquatic Invertebrates and fish. They eat lesser quantities of green plant matter. Scoters breed in Canada and Alaska and are a winter visitor to the Bay area.
Young Male
01/22/2007 - Cesar Chavez Park; Berkeley, CA
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Juvenile / 1st winter
12/10/2007 - Cesar Chavez Park; Berkeley, CA
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Male
11/13/2011 - Quartermaster Harbor, Vashon Island, WA
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Male Surf Scoters
01/07/2007 - Martin Luther King Jr Regional Park; Oakland, CA
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Male
02/28/2007 - Martin Luther King Jr Regional Park; Oakland, CA
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Female
03/01/2007 - Martin Luther King Jr Regional Park; Oakland, CA
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Female
03/01/2007 - Martin Luther King Jr Regional Park; Oakland, CA
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There were many hundreds of Scoters that day
03/20/2007 - Cesar Chavez Park; Berkeley, CA
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04/03/2007 - Emeryville Marina; Emeryville, CA
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Male
07/09/2007 - Cesar Chavez Park; Berkeley, CA
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Male with crab in bill
11/06/2007 - Emeryville Waterfront Park, CA
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Mussel In bill
11/20/2007 - Cesar Chavez Park; Berkeley, CA
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Female
02/04/2008 - Martin Luther King Jr Regional Park; Oakland, CA
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Female eating a mollusc
01/14/2010 - Bodega Bay, CA
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Female
03/14/2010 - Moss Landing, CA
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