This beautiful Common Eider was swimming about in the calm waters off of Mac Millan Pier in Provincetown.
Did you know that the Common Eider eats shellfish it gathers by diving 33 to 60 feet underwater? Wow!
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Before the invention of “down alternative”, the source of feather beds and feather pillows:
“Common Eiders pluck down feathers from their breast to create a toasty warm nest. For more than 1,000 years people have used precious eiderdown to keep warm—gathering the down from empty nests.”
Before the invention of “down alternative”, the source of feather beds and feather pillows:
“Common Eiders pluck down feathers from their breast to create a toasty warm nest. For more than 1,000 years people have used precious eiderdown to keep warm—gathering the down from empty nests.”
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Common_Eider/overview