Scaup

Try reading aloud this description of some Greater Scaup ducks in winter: Late in the day when the light is puddle-shallow and even the deeps feel thin and narrow, the ducks gather in. . .

Coastal Disturbances Alexandra Mullen 2011

Flock/flight Profile Scaup fly relatively low to the water, swerving back and forth in erratic, bunched groups.

Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl 2004

Greater Scaup first on 13th; high of 9 in Berkeley Co. on 13th

Birds Reported from West Virginia in March 2006 John L. Trapp 2006

Flock/flight Profile Scaup fly relatively low to the water, swerving back and forth in erratic, bunched groups.

Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl 2004

Flock/flight Profile Scaup fly relatively low to the water, swerving back and forth in erratic, bunched groups.

Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl 2004

Flock/flight Profile Scaup fly relatively low to the water, swerving back and forth in erratic, bunched groups.

Field Guide: Know Your Waterfowl 2004

And finally, a female-plumaged CANVASBACK was hidden in a large raft of Lesser Scaup, Ruddy Ducks, Buffleheads, and Ring-necked Ducks located about a half-mile further down-river, just above the rapids.

Dreary Weather Yields Excitement On Shenandoah River John L. Trapp 2003

At Lake Worth I saw a gentleman feed Scaup Ducks that swam to within two yards of his boat.

The Bird Study Book Thomas Gilbert Pearson

Scaup, Shovellers, Pintails, Blue-winged and cinnamon Teal were everywhere.

The Lake - 1905 1919

Mute Swan 13 (this apparently non-breeding flock is consistently in the cove near the Evansville cement plant; several of these birds are first-year, having recently lost the last tints of gray in their plumage) Wood Duck 4 Gadwall 14 Am. Wigeon 4 Mallard 10 Blue-winged Teal 8 (Peters Creek) Green-winged Teal 12 Ring-necked Duck 12 Greater Scaup 4 Hooded Merganser 3 Common Merganser 10 Red-breasted Merganser 3 Ruddy Duck 1 Double-crested Cormorant

Berks county news 2009