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Surf Scoter

Melanitta perspicillata

Photo by TomHarvie
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Surf Scoter, Identification, All About Birds - Cornell Lab of Ornithology

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Comments (1)
Darwin26
very nice Tom, i saw my first Surf Scoters in Southcentral Montana last week at Cooney Dam, quite rare to be sure, but there's a tiny dot in my Nat'l Geographic birds of North America where they appear from time to time.

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