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 ...

Cherished and respected by mankind for centuries, supremely adapted for life in cold northern waters and the subject of some of the very earliest conservation measures in the world, the Common Eider ...

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 Common Eider is a large sea duck, which is distributed over the northern coasts of Europe, North America and eastern Siberia. It breeds in Arctic and some northern temperate regions, but winters ...

Not all of our mistakes are permanent. One duck came back from the brink. Not that long ago, the common eider was uncommon. As the largest duck in North America, it was hunted for its meat and eggs ...

It’s a far cry from its arctic breeding ground, but a common eider has been spotted in Bermuda for the first time. The resilient sea duck — identified near Clearwater Beach by birder Andrew Dobson and ...

Having served in groups such as 7 Year Rabbit Cycle, Badgerlore and Deerhoof, Rob Fisk has never been one to shy away from exploring the dusky depths of the noise spectrum. His latest experiment, ...