(1) Such delays in nest initiation by scaup are especially alarming, given that scaup are migrating through North Dakota earlier than they did historically.(2) As the tiny sailor joined the rest of its crew, our eyes were drawn to a small raft of scaup .(3) The lesser scaup is a lovely duck indeed, one that, on its own merits, should always be a pleasure to spy on a lake or stretch of sea coast.(4) Two ducks common in the winter marsh - the canvasback and greater scaup - are now up in the Yukon and the Seward Peninsula.(5) There are mallards galore, the males with their metallic green heads and the females a dowdy brown, and busy little black scaups , bobbing like bath toys.
