I will add one more thing. As Steve described, a lot of the literature and some
field guides describe the color on the bill as "yellow."
Yeah - "yellow" like a grocery store carrot!
To me they almost always look Orange. Both the big knob on Black Scoters, and
the smaller patch or saddle forward of the black knob on the Common Scoter.
Wayne
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I would add that color of the large knob is yellow on the male Black Scoter and
black on the Common Scoter.
Common Scoter also has orange forward, (towards the tip) of the knob along the
top of the bill. Black Scoter bill is just black forward of the yellow knob.
Steve Jaggers
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Subject: [obol] in case others are as clueless as I am about common vs black
Nagi kindly told me that the big knob at the base of the bill is what
distinguishes a common from a black scoter. You seabird smart folks all
knew that and are basically just talking to each other, but I'll bet
there are a pile of OBOLites who are nearly as clueless as I am. Now I
know. Thanks, Nagi!
Linda Fink, trying to learn
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