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Birds seen on seashores in the UK: Common Scoter |
| ARKive - Common Scoter
http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/birds/Melanitta_nigra/more_still_images.html Browse this range of five colour photographs and discover a little more about the common scoter. See image of nest with eggs, plus male and female of the species. |
| ARKive - Common Scoter,
Melanitta nigra http://www.arkive.org/species/ARK/birds/Melanitta_nigra/more_info.html Identifies exactly the areas of Britain where you are likely to sight a common scoter and when. Read about considerable threats and conservation status in UK. |
| BBC: Science & Nature - Common
Scoter, The http://db.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/nature_20030120.shtml Read editorial that explains why a mere twitcher will not sight common scoters from land. Also outlines friction between the species and man’s need for electricity. |
| Isle of Man Birding - Common
Scoter http://www.homepages.mcb.net/wormwell/pages/common_scoter.htm Publishes name of good location on small UK island where to sight a common scoter. Also records best months for sighting, plus set of three colour images. |
| Isle of Man Birding - Common
Scoter http://www.homepages.mcb.net/wormwell/Common%20Scoter230405.htm Discover exactly what this species that rarely feeds close to shore looks like by studying colour image photographed off the coast of island in the Irish Sea. |
| Lincolnshire Bird Club -
Common Scoter: Covenham Reservoir http://www.lincsbirdclub.co.uk/rare_birds/common_scoter.htm Digest field study notes compiled by member of eastern England bird club that records the first common scoter to visit. Also find colour images of totally black male. |
| Ribble Estuary, The - Common
Scoter http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=common+scoter&hl=en&lr=&cr= countryUK|countryGB&start=10&sa=N/ Peruse written description of male and female of the species. Also touches on numbers seem in UK estuary, breeding grounds, and wintering. |
| Royal Society for Protection
of Birds - Common Scoter http://www.rspb.org.uk/birds/guide/c/commonscoter/ Investigate the threat to UK coastal duck that has been placed on red conservation list. Find description, colour drawing of adult male, and distribution map of Britain. |
| Tiscali Reference - Common
Scoter, Melanitta nigra http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/wildlife/birds_common_scoter.html Find short but fact-packed entry about the common scoter in Britain. Also see colour photograph of all-black male swimming. |
| UK Biodiversity Action Plan -
Common Scoter, Melanitta nigra http://www.ukbap.org.uk/UKPlans.aspx?ID=444/ High-lights major problem with duck population that has disappeared totally from Ireland and substantially decreased in UK. Read action plan to reverse situation. |
| Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, All
Wales Common Scoter Survey 2001/02 http://www.wwt.org.uk/publications/default.asp?PubID=53/ Check out short rationale about the reasons for conducting a survey of common scoters in Welsh bay. Supplies link to access the full results. |
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Birds seen on seashores in the UK
