Vogelradar

Velvet scoter · Melanitta fusca

Hävringe scoter 2025:2

Tag quiet since 3 Sept 2025

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 2025:2 has been

About velvet scoters

Velvet scoter
For illustration: Velvet scoter, not this individual. Photo: Åsa Berndtsson, CC BY 2.0

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 2025:2.