The female King Eider looks after the nest on her own without any input from the male. When an intruder is present, the ...

A year-round inhabitant of the Arctic, the Steller's eider is known as “the bird that sat in the campfire” by the Inupiat Eskimo — a reference to the burnt coloring of the male eider's underside. With ...

Threatened spectacled eiders, sea ducks that have died in large numbers after ingesting lead from hunters' spent ammunition, will be tracked and counted in a research project announced Friday by the U ...

Jean-François Giroux is a director of the Société Duvetnor, a non-profit organization dedicated to the conservation of the islands of the Lower St. Lawrence and to public education through an ...

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This is the coldest time of year in the Northern Hemisphere. I only step outside attired in a thick cocoon of thermal insulation, including sweater, coat, hat and gloves. But even on the chilliest ...