eider-ducks

It would be worth while to go ashore upon an islet there, near Vogel Sang, to pay a visit to the eider-ducks.

The North-West Passage 2003

Our Esquimaux pitched their tent on shore, and we supped with them on a mess of seal's flesh and eider-ducks.

Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region George Kmoch

By April large flocks of geese, eider-ducks, gulls, and little song-birds began to arrive, the latter perching on the rigging of the

A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole

He turns his back upon the bright, beautiful sea, tufted with cakes of ice that seem in the distance like the white, pure lilies on a glassy pond, and paddles off home with good-by to the fishing, good-by to the black-headed seals, good-by to the low islands with their gulls and mollimucks and burgomeisters and tern and kittiwakes and eider-ducks -- good-by to the long day's fun!

Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

Of the cord he made nooses and caught eider-ducks, by which, and their eggs, he kept himself alive; in the night, he crept under an overhanging rock to sleep.

The Moravians in Labrador Anonymous

To the right lay a chain of small islands called by the Esquimaux Pikkiulits, (the habitation of young eider-ducks).

Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region George Kmoch

When the ram walked to the very edge of the mountain roof, so the boy could look down the mountain walls, he noticed that they were simply filled with birds 'nests; and in the blue sea beneath lay surf-scoters and eider-ducks and kittiwakes and guillemots and razor-bills – so pretty and peaceful – busying themselves with fishing for small herring.

The Wonderful Adventures of Nils 1922

Robes were, and are, made from the skins of the various eider-ducks found in Northern Asia.

Fir-Flower Tablets: Poems Translated From the Chinese 1921

In the spring the shores of the river were strewn with wild flocks of swans, geese, and eider-ducks.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915

Then the eider-ducks and swans grew silent and went to roost for the night, and the soft warm air was thrilled by the whines of bear-cubs and the cries of land-rails.

Tales of the Wilderness Boris Pilniak 1915