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Перевод: eider

[существительное]
гага ; гага обыкновенная; гагачий пух

Тезаурус:

1. EIDER - Somateria mollissima
2. Nearby the sea terns and eider ducks were nesting, the ducks beautifully camouflaged, sitting tight as long as they could, then moving quickly to reveal eggs of a gorgeous sage green looking so warm in their nest of breast feathers that it made me long for the comforts of my sleeping bag.
3. It is a large, pugnacious bird like a cross between an eider duck and a goose, and is usually quite unconcerned about human presence.
4. Even so, the sea is known to be an important habitat supporting in winter flocks of diving ducks, mainly Common Scoter, Eider and Red-breasted Merganser; grebes, mainly Great Crested and Slavonian; a few divers and auks, and considerable numbers of gulls.
5. Females of the three species have sombre plumage of dark brown, and it needs a practised eye to tell female king eider from common eider.
6. Scanning the area with our glasses, we found a party of eider duck and were excited to see that the flock not only contained common and king eider, but a number of Steller's eider, a "new" bird for all of us, which breeds along the Siberian coast and into Alaska.
7. Eider duck next, Drafjdur, north-west Iceland
8. With her there is another bird which at first and with excitement we take for a king eider, but closer inspection reveals it to be an immature eider drake still paddling along near his mother.
9. We talk a little more, about the eider ducks and the weather, then the two men ride off.
10. It is a female eider, duller and browner now that the mating season - for which she did not, in any case, dress up - is over.