On 3 Dec, 2007, at 13:41, Deborah Duran wrote:
An outside influence got me digging through my more unusual feathers
this weekend to inspire me into a personal challenge and I found a
bag of Eider feathers
[...]
I’m not familiar with an Eider duck???? Is that a common duck?
They are in Europe, along the shores in winter, and in Iceland,
Scandinavia and Russia during the breeding season. They're a large
saltwater species. See e.g.
http://www.ivnvechtplassen.org/ivn_vogels_niet_vechtstreek/Eidereend_Somateria-mollissima.html
or
http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidereend
Henk
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