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Lesser Scaups

At 15 to 18 inches in lentgh similar to the Greater Scaup but the Lesser Scaup's crown is higher and forhead is steeper. The male head is glossed with purple instead of the green of the Greater Scaup. The female is dark brown with a small white face patch and not easily distinguishable from the female Greater Scaup.

They inhabit ponds and marshes. During migration and winter they can be found on lakes, rivers and ponds. In some southern states they can be found on salt water.

They range from the interior of Alasks and northern Canada south to Colorato and Iowa and occassionally further east. They winter along the east and west coasts as well as sout Colorado and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

Lake Erie Metropark, Monroe County, Michigan.

Lesser Scaup (male)

At 15 to 18 inches in lentgh similar to the Greater Scaup but the Lesser Scaup's crown is higher and forhead is steeper. The male head is glossed with purple instead of the green of the Greater Scaup. The female is dark brown with a small white face patch and not easily distinguishable from the female Greater Scaup.

They inhabit ponds and marshes. During migration and winter they can be found on lakes, rivers and ponds. In some southern states they can be found on salt water.

They range from the interior of Alasks and northern Canada south to Colorato and Iowa and occassionally further east. They winter along the east and west coasts as well as sout Colorado and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

Lake Erie Metropark, Monroe County, Michigan.

Lesser Scaups

At 15 to 18 inches in lentgh similar to the Greater Scaup but the Lesser Scaup's crown is higher and forhead is steeper. The male head is glossed with purple instead of the green of the Greater Scaup. The female is dark brown with a small white face patch and not easily distinguishable from the female Greater Scaup.

They inhabit ponds and marshes. During migration and winter they can be found on lakes, rivers and ponds. In some southern states they can be found on salt water.

They range from the interior of Alasks and northern Canada south to Colorato and Iowa and occassionally further east. They winter along the east and west coasts as well as sout Colorado and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

Lake Erie Metropark, Monroe County, Michigan.

Lesser Scaups

At 15 to 18 inches in lentgh similar to the Greater Scaup but the Lesser Scaup's crown is higher and forhead is steeper. The male head is glossed with purple instead of the green of the Greater Scaup. The female is dark brown with a small white face patch and not easily distinguishable from the female Greater Scaup.

They inhabit ponds and marshes. During migration and winter they can be found on lakes, rivers and ponds. In some southern states they can be found on salt water.

They range from the interior of Alasks and northern Canada south to Colorato and Iowa and occassionally further east. They winter along the east and west coasts as well as sout Colorado and the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico.

Lake Erie Metropark, Monroe County, Michigan.

Lesser Scaup © Neal Zaun, Zaun Nature Photography. Photo taken on the Flying Circus Birders Walk on April 12, 2025.

Cap-St-Ignace, Station d'épuration, 2025-04-23

West Newbury, MA

A Lesser Scaup hen (Aythya affinis)

A hen Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis)

Lesser Scaup, Aythya affinis

A couple hundred Lesser Scaup (Aythya affinis) observed feeding, swimming, or resting on Pierce Lake at Rock Cut State Park in Winnebago County, Illinois during spring migration 2025.

JAZZ HANDS!!

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Hungry Bay, Saint-Stanislas-de-Kosta, Québec

Bradenton, FL

When anxiety strikes, everything is a blur!!…

Tundra Swan, goose sp., Canvasback, Ring-necked Duck, Lesser Scaup, Common Goldeneye, and maybe others

Mickelson's Landing, Upper Mississippi N.W.R. (Whiteside Co.), Illinois