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A male Common Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima) is eating barnacles off a dock pilling at low tide in Provincetown, Massachusetts. I never observed this behavior before. His mate was also doing the same. Eiders typically eat clams and other mollusks.

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Janet MacCausland
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A male Common Eider Duck (Somateria mollissima) is eating barnacles off a dock pilling at low tide in Provincetown, Massachusetts. I never observed this behavior before. His mate was also doing the same. Eiders typically eat clams and other mollusks.
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