Somateria mollissima
Common eider
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Ejder
03 2016-06-23 Varanger, Norway/Norge
A male and a female eider foraging together. Once upon the time they were so common in Sweden (and utilized for eider down) that there were particular terms for females and males not used for other species ('åda' and 'guding' ). Today eiders become more and more of a rarity along the Coasts of Sweden. Here, in Norway, they are still failry common.
En åda och en guding (en ejderhona och en ejderhane) sida vid sida i jakten på föda.