English: White-winged Scoter, Velvet Scoter
Russian:  Горбоносый турпан, Обыкновенный турпан
German: Samtente
French: Macreuse brune
Mongolian:  Тольт монхдой, Дөрт нугас
Japanese: ビロードキンクロ (Birodo-kinkuro)

Body Length: 51-58 cm
Wing span: 86-99 cm

Passage migrant
Breeding season: May-September

Egg number: 6-11
Egg colour: Non-glossy pale-creamy to buff
Brood: 1 per year

Global status: Least concern
Regional status:  Least Concern

Habitat: Breeds along coasts on salt or brackish waters (such as the Baltic Sea coasts), and on fresh waters of mountain and tundra; often found on large lakes and rivers in boreal coniferous forests. Breeds late, often a month later than Eider. Migratory, movements usually along later than Eider. Migratory, movements usually along coasts. Nests on ground, usually not far from water.

Identification: Medium-large, stocky, rather long-bodied with thick lower neck (through upper neck can look thin when neck is stretched). Wedge-shaped bill rather heavy. All-dark plumage with white secondaries makes it distinctive in flight even at long range; wings rather broad, but appearing narrower when seen against the sky owing to the white secondaries. White in wing often, but not always, visible as a narrow patch on swimming birds as well. Resting flocks rarely so large and dense as those of Common Scoter. Dives without leap, wings semi-open. Wing-flaps with head held up and bill raised, showing white secondaries.

• Adult ♂: Whole plumage black except for the white secondaries, and tiny white mark under eye (difficult to see except at close range). Bill has pale orange- yellow band along sides, readily visible at a distance. Rare vagrant White-winged Scoter, which has larger white eye patch, curling up at rear, a black bill knob and more reddish bill colour.
• Adult ♀: Sooty-brown with white secondaries; belly only slightly paler, brown-grey. Head pattern variable: on breeding birds usually a rather large diffuse pale loral patch, generally also a smaller but rather distinct pale patch on ear-coverts; a few look darker with very diffuse patches only; during later stages of breeding, wear and bleaching can cause sides of head to appear much paler.
• Juvenile: Like adult ♀, but belly much paler, being off-white, and facial patches generally more distinct.

Food: Molluscs, crustaceans, worms, amphipods, insects and fishes.