Threatened spectacled eiders, sea ducks that have died in large numbers after ingesting lead from hunters' spent ammunition, will be tracked and counted in a research project announced Friday by the U ...

ANCHORAGE, Alaska, January 6, 2012 (ENS) – This weekend, on its way to deliver more than a million gallons of emergency fuel to the town of Nome, Alaska, the Russian tanker Renda will move through an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Adam Grimm's acrylic painting of a pair of spectacled eiders was selected as the winner of the 2024 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest ...

In late winter award-winning wildlife artist Adam Grimm had a tentative plan for the 2024 Federal Duck Stamp Art Contest. The annual event is hosted in September by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service ...

A rare spectacled eider (Somateria fisheri) has been spotted on the Wadden island of Texel, far away from its usual wintering place in the Bering Sea where the species normally congregates among the ...

Like flecks of pepper on chowder, all the spectacled eiders on the planet are now gathered amid sea ice and steaming open leads in the Bering Sea. "It's a mass of life in this desolate area," said ...

RANGE: The Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta and Alaska's North Slope, as well as eastern coastal Russia and the Bering Sea THREATS: Oil and gas drilling, development of coastal sites, increased predation, ...

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