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scaup

Any of three species (genus Aythya, family Anatidae) of diving ducks. The greater scaup, or big bluebill (A. marila), breeds across Eurasia and most of the Nearctic region. The lesser scaup, or little bluebill (A. affinis), breeds in northwestern North America. Both are popular game birds, 15–20 in. (38–51 cm) long, that winter along the U.S. coasts. Males have a dark breast and grayish back but differ in head colour and wing markings; females are brown with white patches around the blue bill. Scaups eat mainly clams. The third species is the New Zealand scaup (A. novaeseelandiae).



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It takes 500 years for native trees like New Zealand's rata, rimu and totara to get established, but in the first 10 years, birds such as little spotted kiwi (the national bird), brown teal, bellbird, native robin, scaup, weka and pigeon, as well as reptiles like the rare tuatara lizard, have been reintroduced.
The novice who spies a lesser scaup and a ring-necked duck, for instance, can be left scratching his or her head and wondering which bird to claim for a sighting.
Breeding populations of scaup remain well below their long-term average, and as a result the USFWS is proposing to maintain restrictions enacted in 1999 that reduced the bag limit from seven in the Pacific Flyway to four in the Pacific Flyway per day.
 
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