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Melanitta fusca (Linnaeus, 1758) Family: ducks, geese, swans Order: Anseriformes print version
Velvet scoter Macreuse brune Negrón especulado Samtente
Migration: intracontinental

Verbreitungskarte von Melanitta fusca Migratory; winters Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America as far as Baja California, most of Europe S to Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Seas and NE Asia S to Japan and E China; also inland (e.g. Great Lakes, Central Europe). Irregularly further S.   (del Hoyo J, Elliott A, Sargatal J (eds), 1992)


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(Last update: 26.04.04 by E.Heuel)