The Elegant Black Scoter
by Darcy Thomas There are some birds we expect to see in certain locations and the Black Scoter (Melanitta americana) is one of those birds. It is, after all, a sea duck so one would expect to see them in open salt water. I viewed scoters many times along the Washington Coast and Puget Sound…
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- The Extraordinary “Ordinary” Mallard
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- Gyrfalcon
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- Hairy Woodpecker
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- Mourning Dove
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- Townsend's Warbler
- Ring-necked Pheasant
- American Coot
- Yellow Warbler
- Northern Waterthrush
- Olive-sided Flycatcher
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Little Brown Myotis
- Bufflehead
- Spruce Grouse
- Northern Goshawk
- Pied-billed Grebe
- Black-chinned Hummingbirds
- Hoary Bat
- The Greater Sage-Grouse
- Black-necked Stilts
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pine Grosbeak
- Lincoln's Sparrow
- Long-billed Curlew
- Ferruginous Hawk
- Burrowing Owl
- Barred Owl
- Ruddy Duck
- Passenger Pigeon
- Red-tailed Hawk
- Blue Jay
- Gray-crowned Rosy-finch
- Downy & Hairy Woodpecker
- Bohemian & Cedar Waxwings
- Black-backed Woodpecker
- Blue Jay and Steller's Jay
- Loon
- Peeps
- Mountain & Western Bluebirds
- Redpoll
- Red-breasted, White-breasted, & Pygmy Nuthatches
- Barn Swallow
- Spotted Towhee
- Pygmy Nuthatch
- Brown-headed Cowbird
- Timberline Sparrow
- Williamson's Sapsucker
- Red-Naped Sapsucker
- Sharp-shinned Hawk
- Swainson's Thrush
- Snow Bunting
- Red-winged Blackbird
- House Finch
- Bald and Golden Eagles
- Western Meadowlark
- Common Nighthawk
- Sandhill Crane
- Northern Harrier
- Mountain & Black-capped Chickadees
- American Kestrel
- Wild Turkey
- Cackling Goose
- American Goldfinch
- Pileated Woodpecker
- Northern Pygmy Owl
- Trumpeter Swan
- Yellow-rumped Warbler
- Belted Kingfisher
- Turkey Vulture
- Brown Creeper
- Song Sparrow
- Red Crossbill
- Northern Hawk Owl
- Varied Thrush
- American Dipper
- Snowy Owl
- Great Blue Heron
- Killdeer
- Marsh Wren
- Ruby-crowned & Golden-crowned Kinglets
- Red-necked Grebe
- Virginia Rail
- Merlin
- Rough-legged Hawk Revisited
- Clark's Nutcracker
- Evening Grosbeak
- Townsend's Solitaire
- Spotted Sandpiper
- Wood Duck vs Harlequin Duck
- House Wren
- Great Gray Owl
- Common Raven
- Northern Flicker
- Rufous, Calliope, & Black-chinned Hummingbirds
- Gray Jay Revisited
- Lewis's Woodpecker
- Townsend's Warbler
- Cassin's Finch
- White-crowned Sparrow
- Pacific Wren
- White-tailed Ptarmigan
- Tree Swallow
- Spruce Grouse
- American Redstart
- Tennessee Warbler
- Black Swift
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- Warbling Vireo
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- Black-billed Magpie
- Western Tanager
- Rough-legged Hawk
- Ruffed Grouse
- Redhead
- Osprey
- American Crow
- Black Tern
- Wilson's Snipe
- Eastern Kingbird
- Gray Jay
- Gray Catbird
- Gamble's Quail
- Northern Shrike
- Vaux's Swift
- Northern Pintail
- Eurasian Collared Dove
- Dusky Grouse
- Sora
- Hooded Merganser