eider

Its vivid yellows fairly screamed aloud; its whites were as eider down; its blacks glossy as the finest anthracite coal, and its coat long and shaggy as a mountain goat.

The landlord was near spraining his wrist, and I told him for heaven's sake to quit -- the bed was soft enough to suit me, and I did not know how all the planing in the world could make eider down of a pine plank.

The first statistical test based on all data show that site and the interaction between site, season and density of hunting motorboats had significant effects on the group size of eider (Table 1; results of primary model are given in the Supplementary material Appendix 1 Table A1).

SHOTGUN PADDY warms up for a possible Grand National bid by making the long journey north for Newcastle's Eider Chase on Saturday.

Naturalists say that that Eider ducks in Northumberland's coastal towns are being harmed by people feeding them the traditional takeaway.

Smith's license plate reads KEIDER, standing for king eider, the rarest huntable duck on the East Coast.

And none is tougher than North America's largest--the common eider.

Berth occupancy was 98% at the Port on Monday where a total twelve ships namely, Maersk Idaho, Rio Eider, Christenia, Sea Baisen, Free Envoy, Ina Lotte, Aquila Voyager, Al Fanourios and Al Soor II are currently occupying berths to load/offload containers, cement, wheat, urea, coal, chemical and diesel oil respectively during last 24 hours.

Hundreds of common eider ducks were cast ashore, bedraggled and dead, at the wrack line, where the receding tide leaves debris, "lying just one after the other," she said.

Those are just some of the challenges facing the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, near the tip of the Alaska Peninsula, in trying to recover a sea duck called the Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri).

Because considerable conservation efforts over several years have not halted the decline of two threatened eider species, GAO will not object to the U.S.