Sentences with phrase «nesting eiders»

The worst threat to the nesting eiders on Maine's offshore islands is the black - backed gull, or minister bird.

Not exact matches

Expending considerable ammunition, six or eight shooters can get their limits, often from the same ledge, by midmorning — if not through shooting skill, then by the sheer numbers of eiders swinging over their decoys.

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.

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In the later case the female Eiders pluck down from their own breast to line the nest to keep her offspring warm in the northern arctic circle.

I was planning to use eider white, which is the next lightest shade, on my trim, but I am afraid it will not be a big enough contrast.