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White-winged Scoter (Melanitta deglandi)Where and when to see it in the UK

Scarce migrant · reporting peaks May · Ducks, Swans, and Geese · BOU category A

Records to 2026-08-16 · build 2026-08-31

White-winged Scoter (Melanitta deglandi)
Mykola Swarnyk, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Too few records to rate squares by month. Each marked square has at least one record; the table below gives the count and years.

White-winged Scoter: relative reporting rate by 10 km square, September

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026 (grid squares, place names from OS Open Names). Northern Ireland place names: OSNI Open Data, OGL v3.0. County and country boundaries: Office for National Statistics, Open Government Licence v3.0. Coastline: Natural Earth. Bird records from the data partners listed here.

White-winged Scoter has been recorded in 16 of the 2,971 10 km squares covering UK land (1%) in records to 2026. Scarce migrant in the UK. Reporting peaks in May.

Conservation status: Least Concern (IUCN Red List, LC)
View on the IUCN Red List

Records by 10 km square

SquareWhereRecordsYearsVerified
NT37East Lothian, Scotland2172015 to 2026unverified
NT47East Lothian, Scotland52024 to 2026unverified
NT29Fife, Scotland22026unverified
NT39Fife, Scotland22026unverified
NT58East Lothian, Scotland12025unverified
NJ91Aberdeenshire, Scotland542011 to 2024unverified
HU44Shetland Islands, Scotland312024unverified
NU13Northumberland, England172024unverified
NO65Angus, Scotland72024unverified
HU45Shetland Islands, Scotland62024unverified
HU43Shetland Islands, Scotland12024unverified
NO40Fife, Scotland1092023unverified
NO30Fife, Scotland32023unverified
NT48East Lothian, Scotland12023unverified
HP50Shetland Islands, Scotland62017unverified
NJ90Aberdeen City, Scotland22016unverified

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