---
title: "Grote zee-eend"
description: "Melanitta fusca — Vogels. The velvet scoter (Melanitta fusca) is a large sea duck, which breeds over the far north of Europe and the Palearctic west of the Yenisey basin."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/velvet-scoter
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Grote zee-eend

> Melanitta fusca — Vogels. The velvet scoter (Melanitta fusca) is a large sea duck, which breeds over the far north of Europe and the Palearctic west of the Yenisey basin.

- Scientific name: *Melanitta fusca*
- Category: `birds` (Vogels)
- Habitats: `sea` (Zee en kust)
- iNaturalist observations: 2831
- Wikidata: [Q201300](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q201300)
- iNaturalist taxon: [850858](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/850858)

## Names

- en: Velvet Scoter
- de: Samtente
- es: Negrón especulado
- fr: Macreuse brune
- nl: Grote zee-eend
- pt: Negrola-d'asa-branca
- pl: Uhla zwyczajna

## Countries with the most observations

RU (937), GB (162), NO (146), DE (141), FR (129), PL (117), IT (112), FI (111), DK (83), SE (67), AT (48), UA (47)

## Summary

The velvet scoter (Melanitta fusca) is a large sea duck, which breeds over the far north of Europe and the Palearctic west of the Yenisey basin. The genus name is derived from Ancient Greek melas "black" and netta "duck". The species name is from the Latin fuscus "dusky brown".

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velvet_scoter

## Photo

![Grote zee-eend](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/velvet-scoter/medium.jpg)

Photo: Лариса Артемьева · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/103983144

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/velvet-scoter?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).