How to Use scoter in a Sentence

scoter

noun
  • Also at the Stockbridge bowl, there was a white-winged scoter and a red-necked grebe.
    BostonGlobe.com, 2019-12-16
  • Out on the water, scoters, eiders, ducks, and various species of shorebirds are in almost constant view.
    John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 2018-06-24
  • The pintails, widgeon and shovelers have departed south, but mallards, scoters and a few teal are still hanging in there.
    John Schandelmeier, Alaska Dispatch News, 2017-10-04
  • Marine birds also included mallards, common scoters (a large sea duck), geese, cormorants, gannets, shags, auks, egrets and loons.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN, 2020-03-26
  • The survey extends into the waters off San Diego’s coastline where teams spotted an abundance of surf scoter sea ducks and black brant geese, as is often case.
    Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2021-12-18

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