This beautiful little EIDER mingles with larger species and rarely leaves the inhospitable waters adjacent to Bering Sea. They gather in great flocks on the Siberian coast and some wander across to the Alaska shores.
NEST, as usual, on the ground; heavily lined with down.
EGGS — 6 to 9: similar in color to Eider but smaller.
Bering Sea, Alaska. Winters in Aleutian Islands.