White-winged Scoter Range Map
The White-winged Scoter breeds from northern Alaska to southern Keewatin and northern Manitoba south to central Alaska, northeastern Washington, southern Saskatchewan, northern North Dakota and northern Ontario; possibly farther east. It winters on the Pacific Coast from the Aleutians south to Baja California, on the Great Lakes and on the Atlantic Coast from Newfoundland south to South Carolina. The White-winged Scoter inhabits waters on open tundra or prairie with dense, low ground cover, preferably lakes larger than 110 acres, 3 to 12 feet deep and with dense submergent vegetation. It uses mixed tundra-taiga less frequently during nesting. In other seasons, it can be found on marine and brackish waters along the coasts where the water is shallow over shellfish beds and the bottom is hard and sandy or gravelly, and occasionally on open freshwater.

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