| FTC | B4480 |
| Descriptor | VELVET SCOTER |
| Synonym(s) | melanitta fusca |
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| Description | | The Velvet Scoter (Melanitta fusca), also called a Velvet Duck or whitewing (not to be confused with the white-winged scoter), is a large sea duck, which breeds over the far north of Europe and Asia west of the Yenisey basin. A small, isolated population nests in eastern Turkey. The East Siberian and North American White-winged Scoter is sometimes considered conspecific with the Velvet Scoter, and its two constituent subspecies are then known as M. f. stejnegeri and M. f. deglandi. Velvet and White-winged Scoter, along with the Surf Scoter, are placed in the subgenus Melanitta, distinct from the subgenus Oidemia, Black and Common Scoters.
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LanguaL™
A. PRODUCT TYPE
B. FOOD SOURCE
AUSTRALIAN BUSTARD
WHITE-WINGED SCOTER
