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Female Eider Duck Eating ©JMC_070ASTOPDNSN

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

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