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Pacific race of Common Eider on Cape Race road not far past PCS. Viewed from the location of the big green buoy on the side of the road. Male. Lots of poor distant pictures including views of the black V on underside on head. Later today will post on my blog. | Uploaded 27 Jan 2021 by Alvan Buckley From Bruce's blog: The Pacific Eider (Somateria mollissima v-nigrum) is the race of Common Eider breeding in the western Canadian Arctic, Alaska and eastern Russia. They winter in Alaska and eastern Russia. It's near mythical occurrence in the North Atlantic has change considerable in the last five years or so. It has now become just about annual in winter where eiders are scrutinized on the Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland. There have been one or two highly suspected or confirmed records of Pacific Eider in each of the last five years. The commonly accepted speculation is that they are making it through the central Arctic island because of less ice during the summer in recent years. Some are reaching the Atlantic side and coming south to Newfoundland to winter. This could be just the tip of the iceberg as there are many thousands of Common Eiders wintering north of the Avalon Peninsula off the coast of Labrador and even Baffin Island. Who knows what percentage of those might be Pacific Eiders? I posted much better photos of a Pacific Eider at Cape Spear, Avalon Peninsula, NF in March 2018 blog. https://brucemactavish1.blogspot.com/2018/03/carrot-billed-eider-at-cape-spear.html It is still important to document the occurrences of Pacific Eider in the Atlantic. On 12 April 2020 I came across one on the Cape Race road, about 1 km east of Portugal Cove South, Avalon Peninsula. In the bright early morning sunlight its orange bill stood out like a beacon among a group of ten borealis Common Eiders feeding 150 m off shore or 225 m from the car. For the next hour I tried to get as many pictures as I could to document the record. It wasn't close and a shimmer in the air over the cold water was increasing as the sun rose higher preventing tact sharp pictures. All these pictures are 100% crops.
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