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Velvet scoter · Melanitta fusca
Hävringe scoter
This bird has stayed within a few kilometres since 31 Aug 2025 — it may be resident, or the tag may have failed
- Distance
- 34 kmalong recorded positions
- Tracked for
- 3 days31 Aug 2025 – 3 Sept 2025
- Positions
- 300GPS fixes stored
- Latest fix
- 3 Sept 202558.56°N, 17.25°E
Where Hävringe scoter has been
About velvet scoters
A heavy, low-riding sea duck that spends the winter half of the year out on open salt water. It is easiest to pick out when a flock flushes: the drake is jet black with a small white eye-patch and a partly yellow bill, and both sexes flash a white panel on the trailing edge of the wing. It dives for mussels and cockles down to 30 or 40 metres. Finding one usually means picking a single bird out of a raft of the far commoner common scoter, somewhere near the horizon of a cold North Sea beach.
Data: Brooding Common Eider and Velvet Scoter 2025 (Movebank study 6432602888, CC 0) via Movebank. Tracking identifier Hävringe scoter 2025:2.