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The first, which peaked in March 2022, primarily affected raptors, while the second, which began in June, hit gulls and sea ducks known as eiders.
From New York Times • Mar. 15, 2023
The road would traverse a narrow isthmus densely dotted with shallow fresh water ponds that separates lagoons holding the world’s largest eel grass beds vital to emperor geese, brant and eiders.
From Seattle Times • Jun. 30, 2022
The state is swimming with sea ducks, including six-pound eiders that eat their weight in mussels every day.
From Scientific American • May 7, 2022
The culprit was avian cholera, a disease not previously detected in these high latitudes, and one that elsewhere rarely fells seabirds such as thick-billed murres, auklets, common eiders, northern fulmars and gulls.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 17, 2021
The keen-eyed critic will interfere here and say I was mistaken; for eiders are salt-water ducks that haunt only the open sea and are supposed never to enter fresh water, not even to breed.
From A Little Brother to the Bear and other Animal Stories by Long, William J. (William Joseph)
