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Steller's eider

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Stel·ler's eider  (stlrz)
n.
A small black-and-white eider (Polysticta stelleri) of Alaska, Canada, and Siberia.
[After Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709-1746), German naturalist.]
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Other birds being hit by European fishbaited ermen include the great shearwater, which reportedly loses 50,000 birds every year in longline hake fisheries off Ireland and the Steller's eider duck caught in gill-nets in the Baltic Sea.
200,000 BIRDS A YEAR KILLED BY FISHERMEN; Conservation groups urge EU ... by The Mirror (London, England)
The lagoon is home as well to migrating and breeding Steller's eider (an officially threatened diving duck), tundra swans and the emperor goose.
In Alaska, a road marked with controversy by The Star (Amman, Jordan)
Annual surveys provide data about year-to-year changes in Steller's eider breeding and information on the distribution in the Barrow area.
Eider Journey by Wendling, Neesha; Martin, Philip / Endangered Species Update
 
 
 
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