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Anne Jokisaari
Haahkapariskunta. A pair of eiders.
Haahkat tulevat keväällä ulkosaaristosta pesimään mantereen ja ihmisasutusten lähistöille. Se ehkä luo turvaa pesintään, kun ulkoluodoilla uhkana ovat kotkien lisäksi myös minkkipopulaatiot ja naaraiden stressi (koiraita vaikuttaa vuosi vuodelta olevan enemmän kuin naaraita) ja muut häiriötekijät.
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In the spring, eiders come from the outer archipelago to nest near the mainland and human settlements. This may provide safety for nesting, as the distant islets are threatened not only by eagles but also by mink populations and stress on females (there seem to be more male than females every year) and other disturbances.

#haahka⁠ #Somateriamollissima #CommonEider #Eider #ejder
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Haahkapariskunta. A pair of eiders.
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Sarah Dal

This includes the Eider Farmers of the Grand General Council in the West Fjords. Their tradition is to sit out with their ducks each night, to keep the fox away, and in the morning they gather for coffee and to recite a poem they wrote during their night's watch.

Sitting out on beaches to keep foxes away from nesting birds is a very big part of seabird conservation here too, I wonder if we need to bring poetry into it?

The eider farmers of the Grand General Council in the West Fjords A very interesting social interaction around eider farming that I came across during my study was the Grand General Council in the West Fjords. It gathers neighboring eider farmers around Dyrafjordur, who guards their colony against the Arctic fox during the whole season. What is particular with these people is the peculiar habits and rituals they have developed: they gather at the 35 end of each watch in the moming, to share about their night, and recite one poem written during the watch. This association has been followed by a visual anthropologist, Haukur Sigurdsson (2012) who made the film Skolliales about them along with his thesis in Visual anthropology. They have invented a full protocol, as well as diplomas, all around the watch for the fox, and more than 3000 poems have been thoroughly collected and archived by their leader, Valdimar H. Gislason, who hosts the Grand General Council meetings. Those gatherings are an occasion to meet around coffee and pancakes, and to exchange about the night watch. This exchange is materialized with the poem that each watcher reads out loud. I had the privilege of sharing a watch with Valdimar, although without attending a meeting as it was too late in June, and will share the poem he wrote that night Í Geir Jóni áðan galt við hátt glumdi í fjallasalnum. Lítt mun stoða að leita um sátt uns liggur hann í valnum. V.H.G. 17.06.16
#Ducks#Conservation#Eider
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Sarah Dal

I'm writing about Eiders again and was reminded about the wonderful Ethnoecology of Eider Farmers in Iceland, a PhD by Gilles Chen, that looks at the relationship between eiders and humans in Iceland

hi.is/sites/default/files/mas/

It discusses all aspects of the tradition of eider down farming, which I was researching to see if we could apply any of it to conservation of this species here in the UK and these islands

#Eider#Ducks#EiderDucks
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Sarah Dal

Some much-needed good news - I'm hearing reports of eider duck creches with hundreds of birds in them, about 1,000 ducklings in total, on Morecambe Bay.

Presumably these have come from Chapel Island, an isolated rock out in the bay that hosts hundreds of Eider nests. For the past few years it's been suffering fox predation but looks like it's avoided it this year!

A huge crowd of ducks and ducklings on some sand, viewed from a distance. Photo is not mine
#eider#ducks
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