Ducks, Geese and Swans (Anatidae)
Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) - HBW 1, p. 621
French: Eider de Steller
German: Scheckente
Spanish: Eider Menor
Taxonomy: Anas Stelleri Pallas, 1769, Kamchatka.
Monotypic.
Distribution: Arctic coasts of N Alaska westwards to Taymyr Peninsula, Siberia; occasionally further west to extreme N Norway.
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A pair preening on the ice. Locality Båtsfjord, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 1 year ago 23 sec 4.3 -
A group of males and females swimming and bathing in a red and yellow sea. Locality Berlevag, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 2 years ago 37 sec 4.2 -
Some males and a female swimming and flying away Locality Barrow, Alaska, USA (United States) (Monotypic species)
Steven Siegel 31 May 2004 6 years ago 24 sec 4.1 -
A group of birds preening on the water. Locality Berlevag, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 1 year ago 37 sec 4 -
A male scratching its head and preening on the ice. Locality Båtsfjord, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 1 year ago 23 sec 4 -
A male preening on the ice, among several King Eiders. Locality Båtsfjord, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 1 year ago 27 sec 4
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Coming through! A wintering flock of Steller's Eiders swimming through a wave
Locality Varanger Fjord, Finnmark County, Norway
Harri Taavetti 1 March 2011 9 hours ago ADDED TODAY! 4.7 -
A female on the ice.
Locality Båtsfjord, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 1 year ago 3.3 -
A group of birds preening on the water.
Locality Berlevag, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 1 year ago 3.2 -
A pair standing on the ice.
Locality Båtsfjord, Finnmark County, Norway (Monotypic species)
Josep del Hoyo 3 April 2010 1 year ago 3 -
A male in transitional (= not fully adult?) plumage in southern windbreak of Liepaja harbour.
Locality Liepaja (Liepaya), Kurzeme Region, Latvia (Monotypic species)
Maris Strazds 21 October 2011 3 weeks ago ADDED LAST MONTH 2.9 -
A group taking off on a flat island
Locality Pyasina Delta, Taymyr Peninsula, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Eastern Russia, Russia (Monotypic species)
Laurent Demongin 22 July 2008 3 years ago 2.5
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