#0892 · 🐦 birds

King Eider

🇳🇱 Koningseider ·Somateria spectabilis

LCleast concern 🐦 Birds 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Ingmar van der Brugge · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Yinan Li · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Maya · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Spitzbergen, Svalbard und Jan Mayen:© Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
8. LaSalle Park, LaSalle Park Rd., Aldershot, Burlington, ON, Canada:© Joanne Muis Redwood · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Сабетта, Ямало-Ненецкий автономный округ, Россия, 629705:© tukkki · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Svalbard, SJ:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

dər/) ( Somateria spectabilis ) is a large sea duck that breeds along Northern Hemisphere Arctic coasts of northeast Europe, North America and Asia. The birds spend most of the year in coastal marine ecosystems at high latitudes, and migrate to Arctic tundra to breed in June and July. They lay four to seven eggs in a scrape on the ground lined with grass and down.

base stats

NL sightings 6iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,877iNaturalist observations
weight 1.6 kgadult, up to
threat LCleast concern

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).