Orkney Eider Ducks

Anseriformes

Place: Aikerness Beach, Orkney mainland
Date: 22 July 2017.

Place: Marwick Head, Orkney mainland
Date: 21 July 2017.

[Somateria mollissima, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common eider]

The sound of the eider (borrowed from the Xeno-Canto website, recordist Ruud van Beusekom)

Distribution and sightings of the common eider across the British Isles (borrowed and modified from the Bird Atlas Mapstore).