Ducks, Geese and Swans (Anatidae)
King Eider (Somateria spectabilis) - HBW 1, p. 621
French: Eider à tête grise
German: Prachteiderente
Spanish: Eider Real
Taxonomy: Anas spectabilis Linnaeus, 1758, Canada, Sweden.
Closely linked to S. mollissima, with which frequently hybridizes in the wild. Monotypic.
Distribution: Arctic coasts, except Iceland and Scandinavia, where may breed sporadically.
- Least Concern Enlarge map
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Two males landing on ice, flapping its wings and preening. Locality Båtsfjord, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 2 years ago 21 sec 3.5 -
A standing male in almost complete breeding plumage, preening Locality Living Coasts, Torquay, Devon, England, Great Britain (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 November 2007 5 years ago 31 sec 3.2 -
A male in almost complete breeding plumage opening the beak and starting to sleep, and a female swimming Locality Living Coasts, Torquay, Devon, England, Great Britain (Monotypic species)
Ferran Gil 23 November 2007 5 years ago 44 sec 3.1 -
A female on the ground close to Spectacled Eiders, preening Locality Living Coasts, Torquay, Devon, England, Great Britain (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 23 November 2007 5 years ago 31 sec 3 -
A male in eclipse plumage sitting down close to a sleeping female. Locality Vogelpark Walsrode, Walsrode, Lower Saxony, Germany (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 12 August 2006 4 years ago 32 sec 2.7 -
Female swimming Locality Pyasina Delta, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 17 July 2008 4 years ago 15 sec 2.5
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From left to right: adult female, adult male taking non-breeding plumage, adult breeding male, adult male in non-breeding plumag
Locality Mushamna, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (Monotypic species)
Christophe Gouraud 27 June 2012 36 weeks ago 3.6 -
Adult male moulting
Locality Vik, Suðurland (South) Region, Iceland
Marco Valentini 20 June 2012 46 weeks ago 3.6 -
Two males resting on the ice, one of them with an antena and the other with a fishing net around it.
Locality Båtsfjord, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 2 years ago 3.6 -
Male in breeding plumage flying.
Locality Andoyane Islands, Spitsbergen, Svalbard Islands and Jan Mayen (Monotypic species)
Christophe Gouraud 1 July 2010 2 years ago 3.4 -
Two adults.
Locality Varanger Fjord, Finnmark County, Norway
Dolors Buxó 1 April 2010 2 years ago 3.3 -
Adult female head.
Locality Zoo Wuppertal, Wuppertal, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (Monotypic species)
Tomasz Doroń 9 July 2010 2 years ago 3.2
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Hooting calls of a drake Locality Pensthorpe Waterfowl Park, Fakenham, Norfolk, England, Great Britain
Stuart Fisher 2 May 2001 3 years ago 3
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