Steller's eider

Steller's eider
Male (drake)
Female (hen)

Vulnerable  (NatureServe)[2]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Aves
Order: Anseriformes
Family: Anatidae
Genus: Polysticta
Eyton, 1836
Species:
P. stelleri
Binomial name
Polysticta stelleri
(Pallas, 1769)

Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri) is a migrating Arctic diving duck that breeds along the coastlines of eastern Russia and Alaska. It is the rarest, smallest, and fastest flying of the eider species.[3]

Due to the extensive contraction of its breeding range, the Alaska-breeding population of Steller's eider was listed as vulnerable in 1997 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN).[4] The species is protected in Russia and the U.S. and is the subject of an ongoing recovery plan by the European Union and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.[4][5]

  1. ^ BirdLife International (2018). "Polysticta stelleri". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2018: e.T22680415A132527232. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22680415A132527232.en. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  2. ^ "NatureServe Explorer 2.0".
  3. ^ "Stellers Eider | Types of Ducks & Geese". www.ducks.org. Retrieved 2021-11-12.
  4. ^ a b U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (September 2020). "Steller's Eider Recovery Plan" (PDF). U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Retrieved November 10, 2021.
  5. ^ European Union for the Conservation of Nature (1997). "European Species Action Plan for Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri)" (PDF). European Union for the Conservation of Nature. Retrieved November 10, 2021.