Sentence examples for eiders from inspiring English sources

Among species protected by the park are endangered humpback whales, formerly endangered American peregrine falcons, and threatened Steller sea lions and spectacled eiders.

Eiders are heavy and round-bodied, with humped bills that produce the bird's characteristic sloping profile.

Like all eiders, this species is at home in the far north.

The first flocks of king eiders showed up in mid-April, with a few common eiders following soon after.

It is not just bowhead whales that use the lead to migrate north but beluga whales and, most impressive, hundreds of thousands of king and common eiders.

In contrast, the wintering sea ducks had not arrived, apart from a few male eiders, all juveniles, that were sheltering in the harbour and all asleep – as if giving up on the weather.

Critics also claim the eagles wipe out eider ducks (mink is the culprit, corrects Sexton) and Irish hares (another misconception, says Sexton: hare numbers have fallen partly because of disease).

Seabirds are numerous and were in earlier times economically important the puffin as food and the eider for feathers.

The Eider Canal (built 1777 84) makes the river navigable above Rendsburg and connects it with Kiel Bay at Holtenau.

In the common eider (Somateria mollissima), with four or five races, differing mainly in length and colour of bill, the drake is mostly white above with black crown, belly, and tail.

Eiderdown, the down feathers of the common eider (Somateria mollissima), are still of wide commercial value for use in luxury quilts and pillows.