Sentences with phrase «eider ducks»

And so they are, apparently — but now what are the eider ducks and thick - billed murres going to do?

Headphones played the original interviews and sound tracks that included sounds of rigging creaking, eider ducks, and rain falling.

Last year's unanimously chosen winner was a magical essay about eider ducks in Iceland.

The shift in diet could sound a death knell for popular nesting grounds of barnacle geese, eider ducks, and glaucous gulls, researchers warn this month in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.

The UNESCO designation was awarded due to the unique interaction between the eider duck and the island population.

Not exact matches

But there are still more than enough eiders and other sea ducks, and biologists say they could stand greater gunning, thereby taking some of the pressure off other ducks which are over-gunned.

The eider shooter may also get some good shooting at coots or old squaws and on rare occasions at harlequins, as beautifully colored as the freshwater wood duck.

The eiders — American and Northern — are the largest of the North American ducks, and the hardiest.

Nantucket Sound is the winter home for large numbers of sea ducks, particularly long - tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis), all three North American scoters, and common eider.

Some, such as the penguin family, do virtually nothing but go to sea, while others, like certain ducks, seem to toy with the idea, with a handful of species, such as king eider and velvet scoter, actually...