Eider Collection

EIDER (MORRIS)
EIDER (Somateria mollissima) Mollissima means very soft, and this birds down is favoured for bedding. Date: 1851

Barn owl, Tyto alba, and eider duck, Somateria mollissima. Handcoloured steel engraving by Adolph Fries after an illustration by A

Western, variegated duck or Stellers eider, Polysticta stelleri.. Handcolored copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodders The Naturalists Miscellany, 1800

Naming ceremony of Sea Scouts yacht, Gibraltar
People at the naming ceremony of the new Sea Scouts yacht, Gibraltar, 26 June 1937. It was called the Eider Duck. Date: 1937

Somateria mollissima, common eider
Plate 246 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Somateria spectabilis, king eider
Plate 276 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1834-35), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Somatera mollissma, common eider
Plate 7 from William MacGillivrays Watercolour drawings of British Animals (1831-1841)

Polysticta stelleri, Stellers eider
Plate 429 from John James Audubons Birds of America, original double elephant folio (1835-38), hand-coloured aquatint. Engraved, printed and coloured by R. Havell (& Son), London

Ducks in Lindisfarne
Eider and Long-tailed ducks swimming just off Holy Island on the Northumberland coast

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