Eider
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Duck - common name for wild and domestic waterfowl of the family Anatidae, which also includes geese and swans. It is hunted and bred for its meat, eggs, and feathers.
THE EIDER DUCK.
[Common Eider.]
FULIGULA MOLLISSIMA, Linn.
[Somateria mollissima.] ...
King Eider
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus)
Status Rare in winter, very rare in summer. Its occurrence was first noted by Jones (1868), who recorded a specimen taken in March 1863. Later nineteenth-century accounts added a few more specimens.
King eider Somateria spectabilis
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Length: 16 inches Wingspan: 37 inches
Large diving duck
Bill feathered partly along side and down forehead
Steep forehead ...
King Eider
Range:
Arctic coasts of northeastern Europe, North America, Asia
Habitat:
Tundra ponds, lakes, seacoasts, open ocean
Conservation Status:
Common
Scientific Name:
Somateria spectabilis ...
Common Eider
Rather mysteriously during a spell of calm over-cast weather at the beginning of November 1993 a remarkable inland arrival of eiders was reported both locally and at reservoirs in the Midlands.
Common Eider
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Eider, Eider Duck, Pacific Eider (v-nigra)
Bird Family :
Anatini - Typical ducks ...
King Eider: Large, regal diving duck with black body and white breast and back. Crown and nape are pale blue; distinct bill is orange-red, sweeping upward into a large, orange basal knob outlined in black.
King Eider Behaviour
No observations regarding King Eider behavior have been submitted to the database yet.
Interesting Facts about King Eiders ...
The King Eider is from the order Anseriformes. Anseriformes are birds, with over 150 species belonging to this order. The majority of these are waterfowl such as ducks, geese, screamers and swans.
The word "eiderdown" is borrowed from this species and describes a bedcover filled with down gathered from the nests of eider ducks.
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Spectacled Eider chicks grow at an amazing pace, reaching adult size in two months—testament to the fertility of the Arctic tundra.
The Common Eider is normally a bird of coastal waters of northern North America, although they can be found as far south as New England in winter.
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Eider (Somateria mollissima)
(aka Common Eider)
The Eider is a sea duck distributed round the coasts of northern and western Europe, Greenland, North America and north-east Asia.
Eiders are large seaducks. They breed in the cooler latitudes of the Northern hemisphere.
Schneider, A. and T.K. Pauley. 2008. A continued study of the use of created ponds for amphibian breeding in fragmented forested areas. Association of Southeastern Biologists 55(3):297.
Schneider, K.B. 1978. Sex and age segregation of sea otters. Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Juneau, Alaska.
KING EIDER - 1 female seen from town beach at north end of Plaice Cove
HARLEQUIN DUCK - 2, male and female in Rye Harbor
Barrow's Goldeneye - 1 male from Great Boar's Head, 1 female from Seal Rocks ...
King Eider Somateria spectabilis. Accidental. Hypothetical.
Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus. Accidental.
Common Eider
Winter Sighting Information: rare
Nest on or near Refuge? no
Peregrine Falcon
Winter Sighting Information: uncommon
Nest on or near Refuge? yes ...
Steller's Eider
(Polysticta stelleri)
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White-headed Duck
(Oxyura leucocephala) ...
King Eider Somateria spectabilis: Bass Rocks, Gloucester, MA, 29 Jan
Common Eider Somateria mollissima: Point Lookout, Nassau County, NY, 17 Jan
Harlequin Duck Histrionicus histrionicus: Point Lookout, Nassau County, NY, 17 Jan ...
Tessellate Moray, Gymnothorax favagineus Bloch & Schneider, 1801
Testing common habitat-based surrogates of invertebrate diversity in a semi-arid rangeland
Tetraodontiformes: Relationships
Tetraodontoidei: Development
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Grossenheider. 1976. Peterson Field Guides, Mammals, 3rd Ed. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston. 289 pp. Carter, C. H. 1987. Black Bear in Mississippi. Journal of the Mississippi Academy of Science 32:90. Chase, L. C., W. F. Siemer, and D. J.
Largescale tonguesole, Cynoglossus arel (Bloch & Schneider, 1801).
Fourline tonguesole, Cynoglossus attenuatus (Gilchrist & Thompson, 1917).
Fourlined tonguesole, Cynoglossus bilineatus (Lacépède, 1802).
The worm inhabits the lung of the frog and toad, and is hermaphrodite (Schneider) or parthenogenetic (Leuckart); the embryos hatched from the eggs find their way through the lungs into the alimentary canal and thence to the exterior; ...
Grossenheider, A Field Guide to the Mammals of America North of Mexico, ...
The saltwater crocodile, Crocodylus porosus (Schneider, 1801), is the largest living reptile. Adult males can reach 6-7 m and weigh between 1000-1,200 kg. Females are much smaller and do not generally exceed 3 m.
They also feed on eggs and nestlings of sparrows, terns, robins, loons and eiders.
Crows build their nests in a manner that it is not easily visible from a distance. The nests are usually built on horizontal branches of deciduous trees.
Schneider, and S. A. Cullen. 2000. Using radio telemetry to describe the fall migration of Eared Grebes. Journal of Field Ornithology 71:702-707. Breault, A. M., and K. M. Cheng. 1990. Use of submerged mist nests to capture diving birds.
Sometimes you hear a flock of eiders. You can hear their wings flapping, even if they're really far off.
What does field work entail?
First we would sedate a polar bear with a dart gun. We do standard measurements, like weight and length.
The Spotted Turtle Clemmys guttata was described by Schneider in 1792, originally as Testudo guttata.
Range Map (Redrawn from Burt and Grossenheider, 1976)
Conservation Status While as a species the pronghorn is not threatened, A. a. mexicana is classified as a low risk, conservation dependent species by the IUCN (1996). More serious, A. a.
Schneider's pitta (Pitta schneideri)
Straw-headed bulbul (Pycnonotus zeylanicus)
Horsfield's tarsier (Tarsius bancanus)
White-collared fruit bat (Megaerops wetmorei)
Bear cuscus (Ailurops ursinus)
Heck's macaque (Macaca hecki) ...
While taxonomically, goldeneyes, bufflehead, and mergansers are lumped in with scoters, eiders, long tailed ducks (formerly old squaw), and harlequins in the sea duck tribe, for regulatory purposes, ...
Walrus attacks on spectacled eider ducks caught on film Walruses have been filmed attacking spectacled eider ducks in the Bering Sea, behaviour never seen before.
Save 'special' carnivores plea
Satellite tags follow walrus migration ...
In the northern countries a portion of the down with which the eider ducks line their nests is systematically collected , as are some of the eggs ; since the eiders lay throughout the season, these of soon replaced .
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Burt, W.H. And R.P. Grossenheider. Peterson Field Guide: Mammals. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976.
Gotch, A.F. Mammals - Their Latin Names Explained. Dorset: Blandford Press, Ltd.,1979.
Burt, W. H. and R. P. Grossenheider.
1964. A field guide to the mammals, Second Edition, Revised. Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, USA. 284 pp.
Choate, J. R., J. K. Jones, Jr., and C. Jones.
Pertinent Reference:
Webb, Robert G. 1973. Trionyx ferox (Schneider) Florida softshell turtle. Catalogue of American Amphibians and Reptiles. 138.1
Account Author: Andrew M. Grosse, University of Georgia - edited by J.D. Willson ...
Tribe: Mergini - Sea Ducks and Mergansers (19 species worldwide, including Eiders, Scoters, Bufflehead, Goldeneyes, Harlequin, Long-tailed Duck and Mergansers).
Genus: Histrionicus - A monotypic genus, as the Harlequin has no close relatives.
Though Larus argentatus is a predator of other birds, its attacks on predators sometimes serve to protect birds such as eiders (Somateria mollissima) and puffins (Fratercula artica) which live nearby.
It was something of a consolation prize after my friend Bruce Schneider and I had spent a very long day of hiking hoping unsuccessfully to find Mt. St. Helena Mountain Kingsnakes to admire and photograph.
They live primarily on fresh water. The pochards nest on fresh
water but winter on inland lakes and along the coasts. Eiders
and scoters nest in the far north and winter predominantly at sea
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The Common Eider is one of our faster birds in normal flight with a cruising speed of around 47 mph. Many ducks have been clocked at over 60 mph when under stress.
Atkinson and Ralph, 1980; Knapton et al., 1984; Schneider, 1984.
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Bright red overall
Black mask and throat
Red crest
Large, thick red bill
© Ed Schneider, White Creek, Tennessee, December 2008 ...
will patrol the coastal areas looking for whale and walrus carcasses. Sometimes ten to twenty bears may be found feeding together. At this time of year, their diet is more varied, including such land mammals as lemmings, arctic foxes, and eider ducks.
Grossenheider, Richard P. 1976. A field guide to the mammals. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin. 289 p. [13685] 6. Cohn, Jeffrey P. 1990. Endangered wolf population increases. Bioscience. 40(9): 628-632. [13887] 7. Edwards, Joan. 1985.
 See also: Duck, Common Eider, Scoter, King eider, Merganser
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