The Common Eider is a large sea duck, which is distributed over the northern coasts of Europe, North America and eastern Siberia. It breeds in Arctic and some northern temperate regions, but ...

Harvested from the nest of eider ducks found wild in Iceland, collecting a kilo of this material isn't easy, and only 4 tons are produced each year.

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The male Eider, as is the case with most duck species, plays no role in incubation or childcare, and so can afford to look as flashy and conspicuous as he likes.

A type of duck known as a common eider swims near a sensor, perhaps waiting for a worm, which is used as a reward for pecking the sensor after hearing a ping.

He also speculates that Twedt's eider could have followed a band of migrating snow geese into South Dakota. "King eiders in the central Arctic will breed in association with snow geese," he says.

Contributors began using the portal in 2015 to log water temperature and salinity data, note observations of important wildlife species—such as beluga and common eider ducks—and track the flow ...

A new report looked at the vulnerability of 54 breeding bird species to climate change impacts occurring by the year 2050 in Arctic Alaska. The assessment found that two species, the gyrfalcon and ...

Having served in groups such as 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Badgerlore and Deerhoof, Rob Fisk has never been one to shy away from exploring the dusky depths of the noise spectrum. His latest experiment ...

Common Eiders are a species of the north; ... There, behind a sandbar at the mouth of the Mousam River, I got to know the common eider (Somateria mollissima) in an entirely new way.