Real dumb question

Mark W

Mark W

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Yeah I know, I've had my share on this site. After seeing all the beautiful pictures of various birds on this site, I am sorry to say that I do not know how to pronounce "scoter". I asked my hunting buddies this past weekend and got a variety of responses. Since none of us hunt that type of bird (yet, I hope to see the migration of them through MN sometime on my lifetime), no one knew the proper pronuciation.

Most popular response were:

"Scoot - er"
"Scott - er"

Thanks -

Mark W
 
Yeah I know, I've had my share on this site. After seeing all the beautiful pictures of various birds on this site, I am sorry to say that I do not know how to pronounce "scoter". I asked my hunting buddies this past weekend and got a variety of responses. Since none of us hunt that type of bird (yet, I hope to see the migration of them through MN sometime on my lifetime), no one knew the proper pronuciation.

Most popular response were:

"Scoot - er"
"Scott - er"

Thanks -

Mark W
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Easier to say "coot".
 
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It's pronounced with a "long" O & the accent is on the first syllable.
Lou
 
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sco (long o) ter

of course most locals call them scooters (as in a kids ride on toy)

Eiders are the ones that got me for a while, guys here called the E (long E) ders... Not I ders...
 
Yeah I know, I've had my share on this site. After seeing all the beautiful pictures of various birds on this site, I am sorry to say that I do not know how to pronounce "scoter". I asked my hunting buddies this past weekend and got a variety of responses. Since none of us hunt that type of bird (yet, I hope to see the migration of them through MN sometime on my lifetime), no one knew the proper pronuciation.

Most popular response were:

"Scoot - er"
"Scott - er"

Thanks -

Mark W
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Easier to say "coot".
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So then, is Scoter in the same family as a coot? They look similar. I never thought that Scoter would be as coots around here number in the few milllions (OK maybe a few less) and Scoters seem to be a tougher bird to find a shoot. It would be very easy for me to shoot a full bag of coots almost anytime I went out. Certainly during the early part of the season.

Mark W
 
"Coot" is a local nickname for scoter. Your coot are more in the rail/gallinule family.
They all taste the same.
I grew up on L.I.N.Y. calling all scoter, "coot".
 
Don't lose hope Mark, My dad and I saw scoters around Willmar in the early to mid 1990s.

Best,
NR
 
Since there are no scoter or coots of that variety in northern Utah, plus never having seen one, I suggest that you folks that actually hunt them can name them with any local vernacular that you wish......as is evident in the above series of post.....
 
I think that I got lost a little here.

Proper english would say that it is pronounced SCO-TER even though I think guys here call them SCU-TER

Just confused on calling the Scoter a Coot when that is a different breed of bird altogether.
 
Don't lose hope Mark, My dad and I saw scoters around Willmar in the early to mid 1990s.

Best,
NR
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Were you smokin some of that ditch weed that Wilmar was famous for back then? Sure you saw some scoters.

Mark W
 
Good question Mark....it is ''Scoe-ter" with a long "o" as others have said, But if you want to show off......you can always say that you shot some birds from the "tribe" Melanitta. That will make them scratch their heads!!
 
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