• Skip to Content
  • Skip to Main Navigation
  • Skip to Local Navigation
  • Skip to Search
  • Skip to Sitemap
  • Skip to Footer
Help develop a Bird ID tool!

Black Scoter

Melanitta americana ORDER: ANSERIFORMES FAMILY: ANATIDAE

IUCN Conservation Status: Least Concern

  • Similar Species
  • Related Species
  • Go to:
Black Scoter Photo

© 2004 Cornell Lab of Ornithology

A coastal duck that breeds in the subarctic, the Black Scoter is not well studied in North America. Only a few nests have ever been found.

eBird, submit your observations

Calls

  • Whistle Calls
    Recorded by William W. H. Gunn
    • Courtesy of Macaulay Library
    © Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

Wings make whistling noise in flight. Male gives clear whistle in courtship. Female give grating "kraaa."

Birds and Beans Coffee
Search the Macaulay Library online archive for more sounds and videos