Velvet scoter · Melanitta fusca
Hävringe scoter 2025:1
Tag quiet since 23 Sept 2025
- Distance
- 72 kmalong recorded positions
- Tracked for
- 3 days20 Sept 2025 – 23 Sept 2025
- Positions
- 290GPS fixes stored
- Latest fix
- 23 Sept 202555.90°N, 11.38°E
Where Hävringe scoter 2025:1 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 via Movebank (study 6432602888, CC0). Tracking identifier Hävringe scoter 2025:1.