A total of 269 eider duck nests are found on Coquet Island as part of an annual census.

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RSPB wardens on Coquet Island have just completed their annual Eider duck census since hundreds returned from offshore to ...

The common eider is a sea duck that nests in colonies on islands along the North American coast from Maine to Labrador, and in the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Québec. Eiderdown feathers cling ...

Since 1998, hundreds and sometimes thousands of dead eider ducks have been washing up every year on Cape Cod's beaches in late summer or early fall, but the reasons behind these cyclic die-offs have ...

Female eider ducks are well known to team up and share the work of rearing ducklings, but it now appears that they also negotiate not only how much effort each puts into the partnership, but also ...

This is the coldest time of year in the Northern Hemisphere. I only step outside attired in a thick cocoon of thermal insulation, including sweater, coat, hat and gloves. But even on the chilliest ...

Rick Acker, a Grand Forks taxidermist and avid outdoorsman, shared this story from a January 2012 hunting trip to an island in the Bering Sea off the coast of Alaska, where he pursued King Eider ducks ...

THIS is how eider ducks get their lunch. The common eider (Somateria mollissima) flocks to the Norwegian coast in winter to surf the waves and feed in the protected bays and fjords. Pål Hermansen has ...

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ITHACA, N.Y. - Since 1998, hundreds and sometimes thousands of dead eider ducks have been washing up every year on Cape Cod's beaches in late summer or early fall, but the reasons behind these cyclic ...