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black scoter

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noun

  1. a scoter of Eurasia and North America, Melanitta nigra, the adult male of which is black.


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I found no harlequins, but did see rafts of eiders, plenty of loons, a dozen long-tailed ducks, many cormorants, a few red-breasted mergansers and a single black scoter.

From New York Times