Sentence examples for few eiders from inspiring English sources

Ripley also stocked the pond with a few eiders — ordinarily salt-water fowl — which he imported by hand from Maine while they were still in their eggs.

Furness says that this provides confidence in estimations by Danish researchers that the Nysted wind farm would kill few 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.

Only a few feet away an eider duck watches me with equal determination.

A few colonies with common eider have been excluded here, to be consistent with the original maps.

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

I found no harlequins, but did see rafts of eiders, plenty of loons, a dozen long-tailed ducks, many cormorants, a few red-breasted mergansers and a single black scoter.

When we get there it doesn't look promising, but there are a few sops for me: a handful of curious seals, a gyrfalcon, and rafts of eider ducks.

You could spend a few days here very easily, maybe taking a trip down to Skálanes at the fjord's mouth, where a field centre-cum-guesthouse lies next to an eider duck colony.

He downed two eiders in this fashion.

When biologists from Canada's National Wildlife Research Center arrived in June of that year, the eiders appeared normal.