| 单词 | eider duck |
| 例句 | A lemming screamed in death, and a flock of migrating eider ducks called out their positions to each other. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z My one successful hunt with it taught me both that I don’t care for duck hunting and that eider ducks are borderline inedible. I shot a deer for Thanksgiving. Here’s why. 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z Nearby farmers tend herds of sheep, gather down from eider ducks and hang filleted fish to dry in the sun. Iceland’s new driving route explores the remote north 2021-07-29T04:00:00Z The harbor earned its name because American Indians, who summered on the island for thousands of years, hunted eider ducks by driving them into the narrow cove. On a Maine Island, Steep Bluffs and Solitude 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The island is an important nesting site for puffins and eider ducks, and is also home to Iceland's only windmill - a protected monument that dates back to the 1860s, that was in operation until 1917. Locals want Iceland to buy their island 2019-02-26T05:00:00Z Shetterly also takes a seaweed cooking class, visits a factory for “Kelp Krunch bars” and travels with a biologist who studies how baby eider ducks depend on seaweed to survive. Essential Seaweed, the History of Cardiology, Neil deGrasse Tyson on Astrophysics and War and Other New Science Books 2018-09-01T04:00:00Z Her main focus is on the brown seaweeds, including Ascophyllum nodosum, which grows along rocky shores and provides habitats for many creatures, including vulnerable young fish and eider ducks. Review | An homage to seaweed and a plea for wise management of this valuable resource 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z Dr, Rockwell described one case in which a bear ate about 1,200 eggs — of eider ducks, in this case — in four days. For Polar Bears, a Climate Change Twist 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z He also discovered local people liked to eat the eider ducks and their eggs. VIDEO: St Cuthbert: Father of conservation 2013-06-30T07:20:09Z While they were drawing in the last boat, a flock of eider ducks gladdened their hearts as they flew swiftly past. North-Pole Voyages 2012-03-01T03:00:27.283Z It is for the sake of the feathers sailors shoot these birds on the ice, for they are nearly as well feathered as an eider duck. Wild Adventures round the Pole The Cruise of the "Snowbird" Crew in the "Arrandoon" 2011-12-15T03:00:12.560Z We are refitting, shooting, and devouring quantities of excellent mussels; eider ducks are very abundant, but extremely shy. In the Arctic Seas A Narrative of the Discovery of the Fate of Sir John Franklin and his Companions 2011-10-10T02:00:18.377Z Best of all are the eider ducks with their soft and beautiful feathers. Little Folks of North America Stories about children living in the different parts of North America 2011-09-01T02:00:19.377Z As a result St Cuthbert introduced the world's first bird protection laws to protect the eider ducks and other sea birds nesting on the islands. VIDEO: St Cuthbert: Father of conservation 2013-06-30T07:20:09Z Far away, by the open sea, there lives a pair of eider ducks, in an old quarter cask. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z There the eider duck builds its nest and spends the brief summer of the Arctic. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z The eider duck is about twice the size of the common duck, being about 2 feet 3 inches in length, 3 feet in breadth of wing, and from 6 to 7 lb. in weight. The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 2: Ebert to Estremadura 2011-04-14T02:00:56.200Z The featured birds were chosen for a specific reason with the the eider duck symbolising the sea and the yellowhammer representing the land. The smallest gallery? The toilet being used for an arts exhibition 2010-05-02T12:04:00Z You sat on a wall, and watched a hawk flying and carrying an eider duck in its claws. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes We noticed several eider ducks breaking a way through the thin ice for their young ones with their wings, and in this operation they made greater progress than we did in the boats. Narrative of a Second Expedition to the Shores of the Polar Sea He measured eleven feet four inches, with enormous quills and feathers, and such a bed of down the monster had concealed about his oily person, was never known nearer than an eider duck. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia He discovered two eider ducks swimming about a fresh-water pond and acting queerly, "dipping their heads under water and keeping them there for a minute or more at a time." Ways of Nature And one day, when they were setting out to hunt eider duck on the islands, the other men took counsel, and agreed to leave Angusinãnguaq behind on a little lonely island there. Eskimo Folk-Tales What will be the ultimate effect of plucking geese's quills, and of the eider duck's abstraction of the down from her breast? Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin The down of that pr-rovident bird, the eider duck, makes a substitute for the flesh that ought to pad my poor bones. A Tar-Heel Baron His clothing is made of the skins of eider ducks and, as their bellies are white and their backs are black, his clothes are spotted all over. A Treasury of Eskimo Tales The eider duck has a curious method of teaching her young ones to swim. Mamma's Stories about Birds And so they sailed out to those islands, which lie far out at sea, and there they caught eider duck in snares, and gathered eggs, and were soon ready to turn homeward again. Eskimo Folk-Tales The sea was covered with offal; thousands of gulls were flying in every direction and feeding upon it, while great numbers of eider ducks, as tame as farm ducks, were swimming everywhere and feeding. The Land of the Long Night There were also a great number of eider ducks flying about but they failed to procure a specimen. The World of Ice A hawk flies 150 miles per hour; an eider duck 90 miles; a pigeon, 40 miles. The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference The first party returned the same day with the empty sledges, and the next day two Eskimo hunting parties came in with three deer, six hares, and two eider ducks. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club Their houses were quite small, and the people themselves were dwarfs, who called the eider duck walrus. Eskimo Folk-Tales No sooner has the eider duck made her nest than she lines the inside of it with the softest down from her breast. A Journey to the Centre of the Earth There are more palatable things than bear or eider duck, yet I know many persons to whom snails, olive oil, and paté de fois gras are more repugnant. The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants Quilt stuffed with the down of the eider duck. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada The principal species are ... puffins, gulls, cormorants, Cornish choughs, the eider duck, auks, divers, guillemots, razor-bills, widgeons, willocks, daws, starlings, and pigeons. Brannon's Picture of The Isle of Wight The Expeditious Traveller's Index to Its Prominent Beauties & Objects of Interest. Compiled Especially with Reference to Those Numerous Visitors Who Can Spare but Two or Three Days to Make the Tour of the Island. That is to say, it was really nothing more than the wing of an eider duck. Eskimo Folk-Tales Later two ptarmigan were spotted, and still later an eider duck. The Eternal Maiden Hair seal and bear steaks were on different occasions tried at the mess on board the Corwin, but everybody voted eider duck and reindeer the preference. The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants It is the soft, fine feathers of a bird called the eider duck. Big People and Little People of Other Lands She was seated in her igloo sewing a garment of eider duck skins, when three rough-looking Chukches entered and, without ceremony, told her by signs that she must accompany them. Triple Spies She had in her lap an eider duck which had been shot, and could only have died quite recently, for it was still warm, and she wept bitterly over it. Weird Tales from Northern Seas Among the realistic "Animal homes" which appeal especially to the child's mind are the hen and chickens, the downy eider ducks, the family of red foxes, and the home of the muskrat. Library Work with Children In addition to being very tame, game is plentiful, and it is not uncommon, off the Siberian coast, to see flocks of eider ducks darkening the air and occupying several hours in passing overhead. The First Landing on Wrangel Island With Some Remarks on the Northern Inhabitants Guillemots, puffins, and eider ducks sought colder latitudes; and little shrews no bigger than a hazel-nut ventured from their holes, tracing strange figures on the ground with their tiny-pointed tails. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude A flock of eider ducks once took refuge and were shot under the same overhanging rock where the terrified servant-girl concealed herself when pursued by the murderer Wagner. Sketches from Concord and Appledore The eider duck plucks from its own breast the softest, of feather linings for its nest. The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations Now, as the eider duck does not select steep cliffs for her nest, but rather the smooth terraced rocks which slope to the sea, the Icelandic hunter might exercise his calling without any inconvenient exertion. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth We had killed nothing as yet, except a few eider ducks, and one or two ice-birds—the most graceful winged creatures I have ever seen, with immensely long pinions, and plumage of spotless white. Letters from High Latitudes Several varieties of ducks, uttering their different cries and calls, eider ducks, whistlers spotted redshanks, “old women,” those loquacious birds whose beak is never closed, skimmed the surface of the lake. The Fur Country Seventy Degrees North Latitude That one is the famous eider duck that provides the down, the eider-down under which our fine ladies sleep; isn't it pretty? The Magic Skin On Saturday we went to Vedey, a beautiful little green island where the eider ducks breed, and build nests with the soft under-down plucked from their own bosoms. Letters from High Latitudes But the mystery was explained when M. Fridrikssen informed me that this tranquil personage was only a hunter of the eider duck, whose under plumage constitutes the chief wealth of the island. A Journey to the Interior of the Earth |
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