eider

Its vivid yellows fairly screamed aloud; its whites were as eider down; its blacks glossy as the finest anthracite coal, and its coat long and shaggy as a mountain goat.

The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit -- the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.

The ducks are mentioned in the 12th century, when the monks of Durham had small cell on Inner Farne which they shared with nesting eiders.

He shot the bird while hunting a favorite haunt one January day on the barrier beaches of Cape Cod, where his technique is to pass-shoot the small to medium-sized flocks of eiders as they transition overhead from the Atlantic Ocean to a protected estuary.

"I am reliably informed by my department that St Cuthbert is recorded to have established protection lawsthe very first wildlife protection laws we had in this country - for Northumberland's eiders as early as 676.

Data collection prioritized sea duck species that are visibly distinct, minimizing identification errors, and that occur in sufficient quantities to be useful for annual trend analyses, such as Common and King Eiders, Harlequin Ducks, and Long-tailed Ducks (Sowls 1997).

The earliest record of death affecting a large number of eiders off Cape Cod occurred during September 1956-March 1957 (3).

The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta sub-population of Spectacled Eiders in Alaska decreased precipitously between the 1950s and 1990s.

The daily food demand by eiders increases from autumn to winter from 2.2 X [10.sup.6] J to 2.9 X [10.sup.6] J (Brinkman et al.

He said: "Eiders don't need all the extra food that humans give them -- unlike other birds their food supply is always there throughout the winter, so they don't need our chips.

Eiders feed largely upon mussels and the large shellfish beds found in the rich waters of the Ythan provide the perfect place to feed.