White-winged Scoter

Melanitta deglandi (Bonaparte, 1850) (0, 4)

Photo © By Len Blumin from Mill Valley, California, United States - White-winged Scoter, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5001314

STATUS

Alaska and northern Canada. Monotypic.

OVERVIEW

Split from Velvet Scoter in 2005 (Sangster et al., Ibis 147: 822) with a further recent split of this species making Stejneger’s Scoter M. stejnegeri a full species.

BBRC RECORDS

1). 2011 North-East Scotland Murcar, first-summer male, 11th to 23rd June, photo, M. d. deglandi.

(P. A. A. Baxter, H. E. Maggs & C. N. Gibbins, Scottish Birds 31: 269-275, plate 232; C. N. Gibbins, P. A. A. Baxter & H. E. Maggs, Birding World 24 (6): 239-245, plates 1-8; Birding World 24 (12): 515, photo; N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 106: 578, plate 333; BOURC (2013), Ibis 156: 236; C. N. Gibbins, P. A. A. Baxter & H. E. Maggs, British Birds 108: 168-175, plates 105-107).

2). 2013 Lothian River Esk, Musselburgh, adult male, 26th December, photo.

(N. A. J. Hudson and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 108: 574, plate 325).

3.0). 2016 North-East Scotland Blackdog and Murcar, 3CY+ male, 25th June to 29th August, photo, M. d. deglandi.

(Scottish Birds 36: plate 248; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 110: 567).

3.1). 2017 North-East Scotland Murcar, 4CY+ male, 2nd July to 19th August, photo; presumed returning individual.

(C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 111: 563).

4). 2017 Shetland Unst, male, 16th October; same, Sand Water, Yell, 18th October; same, Belmont Loch, Unst, 18th to 22nd October, photo.

(D. Preston, Scottish Birds 38: 82-83, plate 73; C. Holt and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 111: 563, plate 360).

3.2). 2018 Lothian Musselburgh, 3CY+, male, 24th March to 12th May, photo; presumed same as 2017 North-east Scotland.

(British Birds 111: plate 198; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 112: 566, plate 307).

3.3). 2019 Lothian Fisherrow and Musselburgh, 4CY+, male, 8th April to 15th May, photo; presumed returning individual.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 593).

3.4). 2019 Lothian Fisherrow and Musselburgh, 5CY+, male, 25th October to 20th May 2020, photo; presumed returning individual.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 113: 593; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 576; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 115: 561).

3.5). 2020 Lothian Fisherrow and Musselburgh, 6CY+, male, 27th October to 10th April 2021, photo; presumed returning individual.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 114: 576, plate 385; C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 115: 561).

3.6). 2021 Lothian Fisherrow, Musselburgh and Eastfield, adult male, 4th October to 2nd April 2022; presumed returning individual.

(C. Holt, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 115: 561; L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 116: 556).

3.7). 2022 Lothian Musselburgh, adult male, 25th October to 9th November; presumed returning individual.

tland(L. Bacon, P. French and the Rarities Committee, British Birds 116: 556).

P). 2023 Fife Lower Largo, three, adult males: one, 28th April, three, 29th April, two, 30th April to 14th May, photo.

(Scottish Birds 43: plates 209 & 210).

P). 2024 North-east Scotland Blackdog/Murcar area, first-summer male, 15th June to 5th July, photo; presumed same, St Cyrus, first-summer male, 21st July.