Eider duck with gray head

The Eider with gray head ( Somateria spectabilis ) is a Palmipède pertaining to the family of the Anatidae.

Description

If it is slightly smaller than the Eider duck with sleeping bag, the royal Eider duck or with gray head exceeds his/her cousin in term of plumage. With its large tinted angular head of blue sky, green and sharp yellow, the male is a splendid marine duck. On the other hand, the female is marbled and mouchetée of brown like his/her cousin.

Distribution

The royal Eider duck is a polar duck and, even in winter, the large majority of the world population remains under high latidudes. But each year, a small number of individuals is observed off the southernmost coasts, among flights of eider ducks with sleeping bag. The majority of these erratic birds are announced in winter and, fortunately for the ornitologists amateurs who dispute the places, they seem integrated rather well into a particular band of eider ducks with sleeping bag for during their stay until this one diperse in March for the reproduction. Occasionally, from the royal eider ducks reconsider several winters of continuation the same site.

Source

del Hoyo J., Elliott A. & Sargatal J. (1992) Handbook off the Birds off the World, Volume 1, Ostrich to Ducks . ICBP, Edicions Lynx, Barcelona, 696 p.

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