Waterfowl
Common scoter
Melanitta nigra
- Group
- Waterfowl
- Size class
- Small (under 10 kg)
- Family
- Anatidae
Range
- Europe
- Arctic
Habitat
- Coast
Range
Countries it is found in
34 countries
- Austria
- Belgium
- Bosnia & Herzegovina
- Bulgaria
- Canada
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Estonia
- Faroe Islands
- Finland
- France
- Germany
- Greece
- Iceland
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Italy
- Latvia
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Morocco
- Netherlands
- Norway
- Poland
Range from:Wikipedia country bird lists — read 2026-08-05
Cross-reference
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Same subfamily (Anatinae)
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