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Fish-Eating Birds and Salmonids in Scotland
 
APPENDIX 3.1.
 
The principal fish prey species (>10%) in order of importance, from stomachs of goosanders (common mergansers) of varying provenance. (d) ducklings.
 
REGION Habitat Season Principal prey Authority
         
NORTH AMERICA
Alaska river summer (d) cottids Fritsch & Buss 1958
British Columbia lake autumn kokanee Munro & Clemens 1937
  lake summer sculpin, sucker, chub, shiner  
  river spring pink salmon, sculpin  
  river summer sculpin, stickleback  
  river autumn salmon eggs  
  coast spring sculpin  
  coast autumn sculpin, perch  
New Brunswick river autumn common shiner White 1957
  river summer salmon, blacknose dace, lake chub, common shiner  
  river summer (d) shiner, salmon  
  river summer white sucker, salmon, blacknose dace  
         
  river autumn shiner, fallfish, sucker  
  river winter white sucker, eel, shiner  
  lake winter smelt, white sucker, eel  
  lake summer shiner, white sucker, killifish  
(Pollett river) river year round hatchery salmon, white sucker, lake chub  
(Pollett river) river summer (d) shiner  
Nova Scotia river summer white sucker, shiner, salmon, killifish  
  river summer salmon, white sucker, eel, stickleback  
  river autumn alewife, white sucker, shiner  
  river winter eel Coldwell 1939
(Margaree) river year-round salmon, brook trout White 1957
Michigan river winter brown trout, rainbow trout Leonard & Shetter 1936
  lake winter yellow perch, emerald shiner Sayler & Lagler 1940
  river winter brown trout, rainbow trout, brook trout  
  river winter rock bass, smallmouth bass, carp  
  river winter hatchery brook trout  
Ontario river winter yellow perch & darters Englert & Seghers 1983
Washington lake winter hatchery rainbow trout Meigs & Reick 1967
Oklahoma lake winter gizzard shad Heard & Curd 1959
  lake winter gizzard shad Miller & Barclay 1973
North Carolina river autumn gizzard shad Timken & Anderson 1969
  river winter gizzard shad  
  river spring white bass  
  lake autumn freshwater drum  
Nevada river winter carp Alcorn 1953
  lake winter carp, yellow perch, Sacramento perch  
New Mexico reservoir winter shad, carp, white crappie Huntingdon & Roberts 1959
  river winter shad, carp  
 
EUROPE
Sweden lake winter cyprinids, mainly roach Nilsson 1974
  coast winter eel, long-sp. sea scorpion  
  river spring river lamprey Sjoberg 1989
  river summer salmon/trout, bullhead Lindroth 1955
Norway river spring trout Lid & Shandy 1984
  river summer (d) minnow  
  estuary summer butterfish, gadoids, char, cottids Kalas et al. 1993
Denmark coast winter eel, stickleback, eelpout, black goby Madsen 1957
  lake winter dace, rudd, bleak, roach, 10-sp.stickleback  
Finland coast spring stickleback, eelpout, roach Bagge et al. 1973
Scotland river ? salmon, perch, trout, eel Mills 1962a
(Dee) river summer (d) salmon, trout Marquiss & Feltham 1991
(Dee) river spring salmon, trout, eel  
(North Esk) river spring eel, salmon, trout  
(Loch Leven) lake winter perch Allison et al. 1974
 
(former) SOVIET UNION
Pechora river summer Minnow, grayling, salmon cited by Dement'ev & Gladkov 1952
Mologa river spring bullhead, perch  
Rybinsk reservoir spring burbot, roach  
  reservoir autumn roach, ruffe, perch, smelt  
Volga river autumn roach, carp, pike  
Caspian sea winter gobies, sandsmelt  
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