King Eider

Taxonomy

Order

Anseriformes

Family

Anatidae

Genus

Somateria

eBird Code

kineid

Distribution

breeds coastal northern and central Greenland, Svalbard (north of Norway), Russia from east of the White Sea to Chukotka (northeastern Russia); Arctic Coastal Plain of Alaska, northern slope of Canada and associated arctic islands; winters to Kamchatka (southeastern Russia) and Aleutian Islands, Newfoundland (southeastern Canada), southern Greenland, Iceland, and northern Norway