A Common Eider × King Eider Hybrid Captured on the Kent Peninsula, Nunavut

• Main Authors: Sarah A. Trefry, D. Lynne Dickson, Andrea K. Hoover
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Key words; common eider; Somateria mollissima v-nigrum; king eider; Somateria spectabilis; hybrid; body measurements; Kent Peninsula; Nunavut; Pacific; Arctic; Common Eider; King Eider; Somateria mollissima
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.661.615; http://arctic.synergiesprairies.ca/arctic/index.php/arctic/article/download/217/250/

we captured and recorded measurements of a male common eider (Somateria mollissima) × king eider (S. spectabilis) hybrid at Nauyak Lake, on the Kent Peninsula, Nunavut. This is the first documented capture of a hybrid eider, rarely observed in North America. Structural body measurements and mass of...