Maps of the birds of the Western Palearctic Region

Ducks

Somateria mollissima
Tundra ponds, lakes, in migration seacoasts.
The two races have been treated as separate species, but they apparently intergrade where in contact.
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Species of sea duck : genus Somateria .
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S. m. mollissima. Arctic coasts and islands from Greenland, Iceland, Faroe and Shetland islands, n British Isles, e to Denmark, Switzerland, Estonia and n Russia on the Kola and Kanin peninsulas, Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach Is., s locally to coastal n Europe from n France e to Denmark. Arctic N. America on s Ellesmere, Cornwallis, Devon, Somerset and Baffin islands, along coasts and islands in Hudson and
James bays, and coasts from n Quebec and Labrador s to Maine and Nova Scotia.
S. m. v-nigrum. Ne Siberia and nw N. America from New Siberian and Wrangel islands and Arctic coast w to Chaun Bay, e to ne Kamchatka, Karagin and Commander islands, Sea of Okhotsk, islands in the Bering Sea, and from n Alaska e to n Mackenzie and s Banks and Victoria islands, s to Aleutians and sc Alaska e to Glacier Bay.
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Somateria spectabilis
Tundra ponds, pools, lakes, seacoast in migration.
From Spitsbergen, Kolguyev I., Novay Zemlya and n Russia w to Kanin Pen., e to e Siberia to Chukotski Pen. and St. Lawrence and St. Mathew islands; from n Alaska e to Greenland, w coast of Hudson Bay, James Bay and n Labrador.
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Somateria fischeri
Tundra ponds, lakes, seacoasts in migration.
Arctic coast of n Siberia from Yana R. delta e to Chukotski Pen. and w,n Alaska from Point Barrow s to Yukon-Kuskokwim delta.
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Somateria mollissima

Common Eider

common

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Somateria spectabilis

King Eider

fairly common

has bred: Norway

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Somatheria fischeri

Spectacled Eider

Vagrant

Norway ?, Russia

no map

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Polysticta stelleri
Tundra ponds, lakes, seacoasts in migration.
From n Scandinavia, New Siberian Is. (probably) and Lena River delta
e to Chukotski Pen. and w,n Alaska s to St. Lawrence I. and Yukon-Kuskokwim delta.
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Histrionicus histrionicus
Forested mountain streams, open tundra, in migration large lakes and seacoasts.
Greenland and Iceland; n Siberia from Lena River e to Kamchatka and s
to n Mongolia and Kuril Is.
From w Alaska, n Yukon, n British Columbia and s Alberta s to sc,se Alaska w to Alaska Peninsula, Vancouvr I., Sierra Nevada of e Calif., c Idaho, w Wyoming and sw Colorado; from s Baffin I. s to c,e Quebec and e Labrador, possibly n New Brunswick and Newfoundland.
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Clangula hyemalis
Long-tailed Duck
( OLDSQUAW in America).
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Tundra lakes, in migration large lakes and seacoasts.
From Greenland, Iceland, (formerly Scotland and Orkney Is.), Spitsbergen and Scandinavia e across Arctic Russia, incl. New Siberian and Wrangel islands to Chukotski Pen., Anadyrland and Commander Is. From n Alaska e across n Canada and Arctic islands to Ellesmere and Baffin is. and n Labrador, s to s,c Alaska and nw British Columbia, and around Hudson and James bays.
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