The common eider is a sea duck that nests in colonies on islands along the North American coast from Maine to Labrador, and in the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence in Québec. Eiderdown feathers cling ...

Avian cholera could spread into areas of the Arctic, including parts of Canada and Greenland, where the disease has not been present before, scientists say. The potent bacterial disease is naturally ...

The Outer Banks is full of mysterious creatures. And we aren’t just talking about this insane-looking prehistoric fish. On one particular 10-mile stretch known as Ocracoke Island, there’s one more ...

Female eider ducks are well known to team up and share the work of rearing ducklings, but it now appears that they also negotiate not only how much effort each puts into the partnership, but also ...

Many birds on islands are threatened by invasive species. A prominent example is the New Zealand kiwi, whose population has been severely reduced by ferrets and other invasive predators. But other ...

A total of 269 eider duck nests are found on Coquet Island as part of an annual census.

NEWBURYPORT — Parker River National Wildlife Refuge biologists are asking sea duck hunters to help with a common eider study. We would like hunters to bag the digestive tract of common eiders and ...

BEMIDJI — Alex Burchard helped boost tourism near statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the past several days as enthusiastic birders flocked to see his rare find on Lake Bemidji. He spotted a juvenile male ...