Sentences with phrase «of eiders»

As the boat moves closer, the rearguard of eiders, snowy - white and black drakes and drab, brown hens patters clumsily across the surface, their wings, set well astern on their bodies, revving up until finally they get up above the waves.

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.

Not exact matches

A flock of 25 eiders banks into the wind and heads for the decoys.

«Look right to windward of that ledge,» he says, pointing to a raft of perhaps 1,000 eiders bobbing in the chop.

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 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...

He has observed polar bears eating more than 200 eggs in 2 hours, and last year no chicks or eggs of any species — barnacle geese, eiders, and glaucous gulls — survived.

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.

Brewster Shelter Agent Brian Long performed seven cat - in - tree rescues as well as several different types of injured wildlife from birds to foxes, a skunk caught in a soccer net, a frightened deer in a fenced in tennis court and a wayward female eider unable to leave an outfall pipe canal at a power plant in Sandwich.

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