New Zealand scaup They nest from October to March. They lay five to eight cream/white eggs in a nest close to water, often under banks or thick cover. The nest is usually lined with grass and down. The eggs are incubated for four weeks by the female. The newly hatched ducklings begin diving for food on their first outing. New Zealand scaup The New Zealand scaup ("Aythya novaeseelandiae") commonly known as a black teal, is a diving duck species of the genus "Aythya". It is endemic to New Zealand. In Māori commonly known as papango, also matapouri, titiporangi, raipo. Overall dark brown/black colors.
Lesser scaup but only really numerous after September. They move north again in April and May. In the extreme southeast and southwest of the breeding range—the Rocky Mountains region of the northwestern United States and the southern Great Lakes—lesser scaup are present all-year; it is not clear whether the breeding birds are replaced by migrants from the far north in winter, or whether the local populations do not migrate, or whether both local and migrant birds are found there in winter. They are rarely—but apparently increasingly often—seen as vagrants in western Europe. The first documented British record was a first-winter male at