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blue dot    Common Eider
blue dot    King Eider
blue dot    Spectacled Eider
blue dot    Steller's Eider
blue dot    Black Scoter
blue dot    White-winged Scoter
blue dot    Surf Scoter
blue dot    Barrow's Goldeneye
blue dot    Common Goldeneye
blue dot    Bufflehead
blue dot    Long-tailed Duck (Oldsquaw)
blue dot    Harlequin Duck
blue dot    Common Merganser
blue dot    Red-breasted Merganser
blue dot    Hooded Merganser
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Meet the Sea Ducks

Common Eider  common eider flock on a rock
Photo: Bob Stehn, USFWS        Photo: Bob Schulmeister, USFWS

Common Eider (Somateria mollissima)

blue dot Sea Duck Information Series
blue dot Identification and Basic Life History
blue dot Range Maps
       Pacific Race
       Northern Race
       Hudson Bay Race
       American Race

blue dot Species Status Summaries
blue dot Common Eider Satellite Telemetry
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      Jan's Ornamental Waterfowl Pages
blue dot Related Web sites and Reports
      Report on Eiderdown Harvesting, Quebec (pdf, English) and (pdf, French)
      Western Canadian Arctic - Common Eider Migration
      Post-nesting ecology of sea ducks in Alaska (various reports)
      Canadian Wildlife Service- Hinterland Who's Who - Common Eider
      Quebec Management Plan - Common Eider
      Alaska Dept. Fish and Game - Wildlife Notebook Series
      Canadian Arctic Profiles - Common Eider
      An on-line audio-visual library