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Large, dark, large-billed salt-water diving duck, Norway (1 Viewer)

Doc Duck

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Was photographing long-tailed ducks in the harbor here in Trondheim when I saw a dark, biggish, large-billed diving duck out beyond the seawall. Not an eider - wrong head and bill shape. Way out of lens range even with the TC on my 80-400. These two shots are heavily cropped and show pretty much only the silhouette plus two light or white patches - one near the eye and one either on or behind the wing tip. I'm wondering ... could this be velvet scoter/European white-winged scoter, possibly a female? It would be a first for me, which would be cool even with these lousy shots, but precisely for that reason I'm afraid of ticking the bird on my list without checking. I might be seeing what I want to see rather than what's there.
 

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