A. Status of the Spectacled Eider - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
A. Status of the Spectacled Eider - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
A. Status of the Spectacled Eider - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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SPECTACLED EIDER ~con~irmei major molting <strong>and</strong> staging areas<br />
Non-Breeding<br />
Distribution<br />
~Major wintering area located in 1995<br />
~ Recent fall molting or staging observations<br />
0 Molting observations from Dau <strong>and</strong><br />
Kistchinski (1977)<br />
=:7Unconfirmed winter observations<br />
~kz~JPolynyas; potential mid-winter range<br />
Figure 7. Non-breeding distribution <strong>of</strong> <strong>Spectacled</strong> <strong>Eider</strong>s. Significant numbers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Arctic Russia breeding<br />
population molt <strong>of</strong>fshore <strong>and</strong> eastward <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> Indigirka Delta. A few extra-limital winter records exist for <strong>the</strong> Alaska<br />
Peninsula, Kodiak Isl<strong>and</strong>, <strong>and</strong> Katchemak Bay in lower Cook Inlet. Polynyas are mapped generally; ice-free areas<br />
vaiy annually. The sou<strong>the</strong>rn limit <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> pack ice at mid-winter may extend south <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Pribi<strong>of</strong>Isl<strong>and</strong>s, <strong>of</strong>f this map.<br />
(Figure by P. Gallagher)<br />
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