Calling all birders: King Eider sighted!

By Tom Scanlon
Posted Thursday, Jul. 2, 2009 at 11:10 AM

a tipster says “a very rare King Eider duck” has been sighted in the Damon Point State Park vicinity.

from allaboutbirds.com:

A large duck of Arctic coastal waters, the King Eider is one of North America’s most spectacular waterfowl species. Highly gregarious for most of the year, it forms prodigious flocks during spring migration, sometimes exceeding 10,000 individuals.

Here is what they look like (thanks to Bruce and Randy for submitting public domain photos, still looking for “the local”):

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 at 11:10 am and is filed under North Coast News. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.

3 Responses to “Calling all birders: King Eider sighted!”

I was hoping someone would photograph the “local” and send it my way
Bruce?
Gary?
anyone . . . anyone?

Written by: Tom Scanlon on Thursday, Jul. 2, 2009 at 9:12 PM
see
http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us&um=1&ei=_2ZNSrD6F8mpmQf674isBA&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=King+Eider+Duck&spell=1

Written by: alwayswatching on Thursday, Jul. 2, 2009 at 7:06 PM
so what does this guy look like?

Written by: Joan Baus on Thursday, Jul. 2, 2009 at 1:09 PM