Surf Scoter
Melanitta perspicillata
Family: Ducks, geese, and waterfowl
Surf Scoter is one of the species in the BirdGuess catalog. The daily puzzle hides a photo and opens it in pieces. You get five guesses.
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They start feeding in seagrass beds, on epifaunal crustaceans that have increased in size over winter or on Pacific herring eggs, during the fish spawning.
They are diving ducks and mainly feed on benthic invertebrates, mussels representing an important part of their diet.
It mainly feeds on benthic invertebrates.