#0730 · 🐦 birds
Spectacled Eider
🇳🇱 Brileider ·Somateria fischeri
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what is it?
dər/) ( Somateria fischeri ) is a large sea duck that breeds on the coasts of Alaska and northeastern Siberia.
base stats
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
- Spotted 89 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 283 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Weighs up to about 1.4 kg.
- Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich von Brandt in 1847 (179 years ago).
- Dutch status: Accidental vagrant in the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Spectacled Eider
- Nederlands
- Brileider
- scientific name
- Somateria fischeri
- class
- Aves
- order
- Anseriformes
- family
- Anatidae
- IUCN Red List
- NT · near threatened
- Dutch status
- Accidental vagrant in the Netherlands
- sightings in NL
- 89
- sightings in Europe
- 89
- sightings worldwide
- 283
- GBIF records in NL
- 6,794
- weight
- 1.4 kg
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1847 by Johann Friedrich von Brandt
IUCN in Dutch: gevoelig. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 7029, Wikidata Q833508, GBIF 2498366, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.