Place: St. Andrews, Fife, Scotland
Date: 23 June 2018.
[Somateria mollissima, Family Anatidae, Order Anseriformes, Wikipedia Entry: Common eider]
The sound of the eider duck (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).










