Bird Eggs

Information on Arctic Birds

Incubating red-throated loon, Gavia stellata, Victorai Island, Nunavut, Arctic Canada

Ivan Tanko, a Chukchi elder, making caviar from salmon eggs at a camp on the Senyavinsky Strait. Beringia National Park, Providensky Region of Chukotka. Russian Far East

Ivan Tanko, a Chukchi elder, making caviar from salmon eggs at a camp on the Senyavinsky Strait. Beringia National Park, Providensky Region of Chukotka. Russian Far East

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.

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

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

Removing some Eider down from a nest. Eholmen Island. Spitsbergen

An Eider duck nest on Eholmen Island. Spitsbergen

Snowy owl, Bubo scandiaca, nest, Prince of Wales island, Arctic Canada

Snowy owl, Bubo scandiaca, nest, Prince of Wales Island, Arctic Canada

Newly hatching short-eared owl, Asio flammeus, chicks, Arctic Manitoba, Canada. Notice the egg tooth on the tip of the largest chick's bill.

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