Arctic Ducks

Information on Arctic Birds

Long-tailed Duck in breeding plumage displays. Living Coasts

Female Eider sits on her nest amongst Purple Saxifrage. Spitsbergen.

A family of Northern Pintail ducks (Anas acuta)feeding on a small lake in the tundra.Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia

A female Northern Pintail duck (Anas acuta) on a small lake in the tundra. Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia

A family of Northern Pintail duck (Anas acuta) on a small lake in the tundra.Iultinsky District, Chukotka, Siberia, Russia

An Arctic Skua raiding an Eider Duck nest on Eholmen Island. Spitsbergen. Norway.

An Arctic Skua raiding an Eider Duck nest on Eholmen Island. Spitsbergen. Norway.

Longtailed ducks on an icefloe in summer, Svalbard. Arctic Norway

An Eider duck's nest with eggs, on Eholmen Island, Spitsbergen.

Female Eider Ducks on their nests in the duck sanctuary just outside Longyearbyen. Svalbard

Male king eider, Somateria spectabilis, swimming in a shore lead, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada

Male king eider, Somateria spectabilis, resting on the ice of a frozen lake, Victoria Island, Nunuavut, Arctic Canada

Male king eider, Somateria spectabilis, swimming in a shore lead, Banks Island, Northwest Territories, Arctic Canada

Male king eider, Somateria spectabilis, Victoria Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

Male king eider, Somateria spectabilis, walking on a frozen lake, Victoria Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

Female king eider, Somateria spectabilis, Victoria Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

Female Eider Duck sits tight on her down nest, well camouflaged amongst the lichen rocks. Svalbard.

Portrait of a female Eider Duck on her nest. Svalbard.

Four Eider eggs in a nest lined with eider down and protected between rocks. Svalbard.

Long-tailed Duck in breeding plumage displays. Living Coasts

Spectacled Eider Duck, adult male, found mostly in northern Siberian and Alaska. C

Spectacled Eider takes a bath. These birds are native to north of Siberia and Alaska. C.

Spectacled Eider, Somateria fischeri, the male bird on water. Arctic

Spectacled Eider, Somateria fischeri, the male bird on shore with females. Arctic

A male Eider duck (Somateria mollissima) resting at its nesting site. Northwest Greenland. (1989)

A Long Tailed duck (Clangula hyemalis)swims at the edge of a tundra pond. Jens Munk Island, Nunavut, Canada. 1992

Polar Bear with an Eider Duck that it has caught in the lean autumn months. Cape Churchill. Manitoba. Canada.