Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Anseriformes > Anatidae > Melanitta fusca > Melanitta fusca deglandi

Melanitta fusca deglandi (American white-winged scoter)

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Attributes

Adult Weight [1]  3.865 lbs (1.753 kg)
Birth Weight [1]  55 grams
Female Weight [2]  3.818 lbs (1.732 kg)
Male Weight [2]  4.226 lbs (1.917 kg)
Weight Dimorphism [2]  10.7 %
Clutch Size [3]  9
Clutches / Year [1]  1
Fledging [1]  60 days
Incubation [3]  28 days
Maximum Longevity [1]  21 years
Snout to Vent Length [1]  22 inches (55 cm)
Wing Span [3]  36 inches (.92 m)
Female Maturity [1]  2 years 2 months
Male Maturity [1]  2 years

Prey / Diet

Cryptonatica affinis (Arctic moonsnail)[4]
Leukoma staminea (Pacific littleneck)[4]
Mytilus edulis (Blue mussel)[4]
Neptunea lyrata (inflated whelk)[4]
Ruditapes philippinarum (Japanese littleneck)[5]

Prey / Diet Overlap

Consumers

External References

NatureServe Explorer

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109
♦ 2Brown, PW and LH Fredrickson. 1997. White-winged Scoter (Melanitta fusca). In A. Poole and F. Gill [eds.], The Birds of North America, No. 274. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA, and The American Ornithologists' Union, Washington, DC.
♦ 3del Hoyo, J., Elliott, A., Sargatal, J., Christie, D.A. & de Juana, E. (eds.). Handbook of the Birds of the World Alive. Lynx Edicions, Barcelona.
♦ 4Winter feeding ecology and trophic relationships of Oldsquaws and White-winged Scoters on Kachemak Bay, Alaska, Gerald A. Sanger and Robert D. Jones, Jr., Canadian Wildlife Service, 1984
♦ 5Food Web Relationships of Northern Puget Sound and the Strait of Juan de Fuca : a Synthesis of the Available Knowledge, Charles A. Simenstad, Bruce S. Miller, Carl F. Nyblade, Kathleen Thornburgh, and Lewis J. Bledsoe, EPA-600 7-29-259 September 1979
♦ 6Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0