Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) Science Article 1 abstract The foraging skills of Tufted Duck Aythya fuligula and Scaup Aythya marila feeding on Zebra Mussels Dreissena polymorpha were studied in experiments under semi-natural diving conditions with relevance to the IJsselmeer/Markermeer area (large lakes in the centre of The Netherlands, former Zuiderzee area), the major freshwater wintering […]
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Greater Scaup (Aythya marila)
[order] ANSERIFORMES | [family] Anatidae | [latin] Aythya marila | [authority] Linnaeus, 1761 | [UK] Greater Scaup | [FR] Fuligule milouinan | [DE] Bergente | [ES] Porron Bastardo | [NL] Toppereend Subspecies Monotypic species Genus Aythya is a genus of diving ducks. It has twelve described species. Aythya shihuibas was described from the Late Miocene […]