#1235 · 🐦 birds

Steller's Eider

🇳🇱 Stellers Eider ·Polysticta stelleri

VUvulnerable 🐦 Birds 📍 in Europe, not in NL

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Анна Голубева · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Liam Ragan · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © gwynmwilliams · CC BY 4.0
4. © Ron Knight · CC BY 4.0
5. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
6. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
7. © Jessica Peruzzo · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. © U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Headquarters · CC BY 4.0
9. © Grigory Heaton · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Mike Duran · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The Steller's eider ( Polysticta stelleri ) is a smallish sea duck that breeds along the Arctic coasts of eastern Siberia and Alaska.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 495iNaturalist observations
weight 807 gadult, up to
threat VUvulnerable

Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
495 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Weighs only about 807 g.
Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1769 (257 years ago).
Listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.