How to Use eider in a Sentence

eider

noun

• Their squids struggle to free themselves from jaws of king eider drakes.
  — Christopher Borrelli, chicagotribune.com, 26 May 2017
• But as legendary king eider guide Russ Owen always says, what works for me may not work for you.
  — Joe Genzel, Outdoor Life, 15 Oct. 2020
• In winter, tens of thousands of the threatened Steller's eider sea ducks stay in Izembek and molt.
  — Author: Juliet Eilperin, Anchorage Daily News, 6 Jan. 2018
• South Shore: Reports included an eared grebe and a king eider in Hull.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 17 Apr. 2021
• Nearby farmers tend herds of sheep, gather down from eider ducks and hang filleted fish to dry in the sun.
  — Washington Post, 30 July 2021
• Elsewhere in Sandwich, a king eider was discovered in the canal at Scusset Beach.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2020
• For now, only 30% of the eider colonies in Canada are visited by polar bears.
  — Sofia Moutinho, Science | AAAS, 7 Apr. 2021
• An eider lazily floated by as a polar bear shifted in its bed.
  — Tyler Freel, Outdoor Life, 21 Dec. 2020
• The master of this art is the eider duck, a portly sea duck that is widespread in the Arctic and feeds by diving for mussels in frigid polar water.
  — Helen Czerski, WSJ, 6 Feb. 2020
• The document notes that geese, swans and common eiders might benefit from longer summers and more ice-free days.
  — Adam Aton, Scientific American, 16 Sep. 2019
• Westport: Birders spotted a royal tern and a king eider.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 16 June 2019
• Out on the water, scoters, eiders, ducks, and various species of shorebirds are in almost constant view.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 24 June 2018
• But that hasn't been good news for some of their prey, including other vulnerable birds, such as eiders.
  — Brian Clark Howard, National Geographic, 11 Aug. 2016
• Heath: Due to concerns about eider die-offs, we were invited to come and help the community study and understand the issues.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• Lewis reports that researchers documented Arctic loons taking care of an eider duck in the 1970s.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 July 2019
• From behind the safety of an electric fence, Jagielski and his team launched multiple drones over the island in July 2017, just before the eider eggs were supposed to hatch.
  — Sofia Moutinho, Science | AAAS, 7 Apr. 2021
• Some species commonly sighted include common goldeneye, common eider, and three species of scoters: white-winged, black, and surf.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Feb. 2021
• Hundreds of years ago, when caribou died out on the Belcher Islands archipelago, the Sanikiluaq people came to rely on the eider as a primary source of clothing and food — a unique relationship.
  — Ashoka, Forbes, 9 June 2022
• For example, pilot-biologists discovered the wintering grounds of Spectacled eiders, an Arctic sea duck, after a swift decline based upon aerial survey data.
  — Kristen A. Schmitt, Smithsonian, 16 Feb. 2017
• Newell designed this ungainly Willy Wonka–esque apparatus over decades in a costly process of trial and error that faced—and ultimately overcame—several challenges, including protecting the mussels from turbulent seas and voracious eider ducks.
  — Ellen Ruppel Shell, Scientific American, 1 May 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024