The Scaup is a small diving duck. It breeds on the ground by lakes and bogs on the tundra and at the northern limits of the boreal forest across Arctic and subarctic regions of northern North America, Europe and Asia.  The adult Scaup is 42-51 cm long with a 71-80 cm wingspan, larger than the Lesser Scaup. It has a blue bill and yellow eyes. The male has a dark head with a green sheen, a black breast, a light back, a black tail and a white bottom. The adult female has a white band at the base of the bill and a brown head and body.  Nearctic Greater Scaup are separable from PalaearcticA. m. nearctica. Based on size differences, a Pleistocene paleosubspecies Aythya marila asphaltica has also been described from fossils recovered at Binagady, Azerbaijan.  Greater Scaup migrate southwards to winter in flocks to coastal waters. The Greater Scaup mainly eats mollusks and aquatic plants, obtained by diving and swimmming underwater. There is a report[1] of four Greater Scaups swallowing leopard frogs (with body length about 5 cm (2 inches)) which they dredged out of a roadside freshwater pond.  The Greater Scaup's name may come from its display call scaup scaup. It is usually silent when not breeding.  They are a North American species, primarily on the West Coast.  The most numerous diving duck in North America.  Stays inland except for bad winters, which it spends at sea.  Far more numerous than the greater scaup in the United States.  Barring on the sides distinguishes it from the Greater Scaup. birds by stronger vermiculation on the mantle and scapulars, and are considered a separate subspecies,