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Common Eider duck, Somateria mollissima
Common Eider
Ederfugl 
Eidereend 
Haahka
Eider à
duvet 
Eiderente
Edredone 
Ærfugl 
Eider 
Ejder
Following pictures are from Jökulsárlón, Iceland, June 2004
It is hard to understand how any animal can live her in this cold lagoon,
with a temperature that must be very close to zero-degrees C - or freezingpoint.
However, the more we looked around, more animals and birds showed up.
Seals and eiders were all over, in between the icebergs.
Even in this cold area, they are able to have chickes, and to feed them.
North-eastern Iceland, June 2004
All pictures above: © www.vulkaner.no
  Photo: © Dennis Olsen  Denmark, November 2006 Photo © Jørgen Scheel  © www.ecosystema.ru/ The Eider is a social bird, and often breeds in large colonies. Quite often you may find it together in groups of gulls and Greylags.,   © www.ecosystema.ru/ Normally the eider lays from 4 to 6 eggs. After 4 weeks the chickes come out, and after only another 1 or 2 days, the chicks leave the nest and go into the water.  © www.ecosystema.ru/ Down at the seaside, it is not difficult to find other females (aunts), whom may assist the mother with her chickens. Often several mothers and chickes are seen together. 
© Jorge Sierra Oil - and other disturbanses - near the breedingplaces, seems today to be the most important reasons that the number of eiders are decreasing. 10.000 eiderducks lost their life near the island of Vega in 1982, when a 70 thousand tons large greece cargovessel could find the right way and grounded. But there are more oiltankers to come, too..... |
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