“Eider!”
“Eider!”
“Eider!”
The staccato voices echoed down the shore as I peered into the slow-rising sun for the one bird that had brought me thousands of miles in January to a small island in the middle of Alaska’s Bering Sea.
And there it was: a drake king eider.

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