This article was auto generated by User Polbot . Taxobox name Chiming Wedgebill image Chiming wedgebill.jpg status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animalia phylum Chordata classis Aves ordo Passeriformes familia Cinclosomatidae genus Psophodes species P. occidentalis binomial Psophodes occidentalis binomial authority Gregory Mathews Mathews , 1912 synonyms The Chiming Wedgebill Psophodes occidentalis is a species of bird in the Cinclosomatidae family. It is Endemism endemic to Australia . The Chiming Wedgebill makes a cooing sound during mating. References BirdLife International 2004. http www.iucnredlist.org search details.php 51029 all Psophodes occidentalis . http www.iucnredlist.org 2006 IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Downloaded on 27 July 2007. Category Psophodes Category Birds of Australia Cinclosomatidae stub fr Psophode carillonneur sv kensn rtf gel ... more details
Infobox Pigeonbreed name Arabian Trumpeter image Arabische Trommeltauben Gelb Atlasfarbig .jpg imagecaption Arabian Trumpeter status Common altname country nickname augroup usgroup Fancy eegroup extinct crest feather note These birds are bred for their unique vocalizations The Arabian Trumpeter is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding . ref name Levi cite book last Levi first Wendell title The Pigeon year 1977 publisher Levi Publishing Co, Inc location Sumter, S.C. isbn 0 85390 013 2 ref Arabian Trumpeters, along with other varieties of Domestic Pigeon domesticated pigeons , are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon Columba livia . There are several breeds of Trumpeter pigeon trumpeter pigeons which are known for their vocal cooing which sounds similar to laughter or trumpeting. The breeds with this ability are collectively known as voice pigeons. References reflist See also List of pigeon breeds Bokhara Trumpeter Category Domesticated pigeon breeds Domesticated pigeon breed stub ... more details
Infobox Pigeonbreed name Altenburger Trumpeter image Altenburg Trumpeter.jpg imagecaption Aachen Lacquer Shield Owl status Common altname country nickname augroup usgroup Fancy eegroup extinct crest feather note Known for special vocalization that the pigeon makes Image Altenburg Trumpeter.jpg thumb Altenburger Trumpeter The Altenburger Trumpeter is a breed of fancy pigeon developed over many years of selective breeding . ref name Levi cite book last Levi first Wendell title The Pigeon year 1977 publisher Levi Publishing Co, Inc location Sumter, S.C. isbn 0 85390 013 2 ref Altenburger Trumpeters along with other breeds of Domestic Pigeon domesticated pigeons are all descendants from the Rock Pigeon Columba livia . There are several breeds of Trumpeter pigeon trumpeter pigeons which are known for their vocal cooing which sounds similar to laughter or trumpeting. The breeds with this ability are collectively known as voice pigeons. References reflist See also List of pigeon breeds Bokhara Trumpeter Category Domesticated pigeon breeds Domesticated pigeon breed stub ... more details
, the species is evaluated as Least Concern. IUCN Red List . Trivia This dove s cooing calls have earned ... native Spanish speakers interpret the dove s syncopated cooing as coo coo LEE . References Johnson, Kevin ... more details
Listen filename Div d ji as gais skr ja.ogg title Div d ji as gais skr ja description Performed by Lizete Iesmi a Mihelsone 1872 1934 Div d ji as gais skr ja lang en Two doves bolted into the blue is the title of a traditional Latvia n folk song that is best known as a musical composition by J nis Cimze . ref cite web url http www.liis.lv muzika komponisti Janis Cimze index.php?id 3 title Noz m g kie darbi J nis Cimze publisher Latvian Education Informatization System language Latvian accessdate 2010 10 16 ref Lyrics class wikitable Latvian English Div d ji as gais skr ja, Abas skr ja d dodam s. Ai, ai, aijajaij Abas skr ja d dodam s. Div b li i kar j ja, Abi j ja dom dam . Ai, ai, aijajaij Abi j ja dom dam . Vai b s j ti vai nej ti, Vai palikti s ti . Ai, ai, aijajaij Vai palikti s ti . Kur palika mans b li is mdash Karodzi a nes ji ? Ai, ai, aijajaij Karodzi a nes ji ? Tur aizg ja, tur palika Uz t m pr u robe m Ai, ai, aijajaij Uz t m pr u robe m Tur staig ja Dieva d li Dv sel tes las dam. Ai, ai, aijajaij Dv sel tes las dam. Atradu i dv sel ti, Ietin balt villain . Ai, ai, aijajaij Ietin balt villain . Ienes klus pav n , Guldin Dieva pul . Ai, ai, aijajaij Guldin Dieva pul . Aij , m a dv sel te, Ka kauta mdash nemirus . Ai, ai, aijajaij Kar kauta mdash nemirus . Two doves bolted into the blue Both cooing as they rose. Ai, ai, aijajaij Both cooing as they rose. Two brothers rode off to war Pondering as they rode. Ai, ai, aijajaij Pondering as they rode. Should they ride or should they not mdash Or stay in their homestead? Ai, ai, aijajaij Or stay in their homestead? Where did my brother dear go mdash The bearer of our banner? Ai, ai, aijajaij The bearer of our banner? Thence he marched and now remains In the Prussian borderlands. Ai, ai, aijajaij In the Prussian borderlands. There strolled the sons of God Gathering up souls. Ai, ai, aijajaij Gatheri ... more details
Taxobox name Gymnophaps image Papuan Mountain Pigeon 3.jpg image caption Papuan Mountain Pigeon regnum Animalia phylum Chordata classis Aves ordo Columbiformes familia Columbidae genus Gymnophaps genus authority Tommaso Salvadori Salvadori , 1874 Gymnophaps is a genus of bird in the pigeon family Columbidae it includes three species , all called Mountain pigeons. Mountain pigeons live in the forested hills and mountains of certain islands in eastern Indonesia and in the region of Melanesia . They are tree dwellers and eat fruit. A remarkable aspect of these pigeons is that they have bright red skin around the eyes. Otherwise, they are dark gray on the back and wings, with paler heads and undersides. Males and females look mostly alike, though the female Papuan Mountain Pigeon has a grayer belly than the male. Mountain pigeons move around a lot and are often seen flying, usually in Flock birds flocks of at least ten or as many as a hundred or more birds. They are not known to do a lot of loud cooing, rather their vocalizations are muted or wheezy when they make any noise at all. The ranges of the three species do not overlap, so this genus is an example of probable allopatric speciation . Two species are island Endemism endemics the Buru Mountain Pigeon is endemic to the Maluku Islands , and the Pale Mountain Pigeon is endemic to the Solomon Islands archipelago Solomon Islands . The Papuan Mountain Pigeon has a range in between the others it lives on the island of New Guinea and on nearby smaller islands. Species Papuan Mountain Pigeon , Gymnophaps albertisii Buru Mountain Pigeon , Gymnophaps mada Pale Mountain Pigeon , Gymnophaps solomonensis References cite book last1 Gibbs first1 David last2 Barnes first2 Eustace last3 Cox first3 John title Pigeons and Doves A Guide to the Pigeons and Doves of the World publisher Yale University Press year 2001 pages 168 169, 577 580 isbn 0 300 07886 2 Category Columbidae Columbiformes stub ca Gymnophaps de Bergtauben eo Montokolo ... more details
Multiple issues primarysources March 2009 notability March 2009 Infobox album Name Pulse 3 EP Cover fsol pulse 3 ep.jpg Artist Indo Tribe Smart Systems Yage Released 1991 Type ep Recorded Earthbeat Studios 1991 Genre Acid house br Techno music Techno Length 18 20 Label Jumpin & Pumpin Records br Cat. 12 TOT 16 Writer Brian Dougans br Garry Cobain Producer FSOL Misc Extra chronology Artist The Future Sound of London Type ep Last album Principles of Motion EP br 1991 This album Pulse 3 EP br 1991 Next album Papua New Guinea song Papua New Guinea br 1992 The Pulse 3 EP is an EP release by The Future Sound of London under the alias Indo Tribe, Smart Systems and Yage . The tracks are all techno in form and have a few odd samples such as an owl cooing on Owl . The Tingler, Owl and Bite The Bullet Baby feature on the Earthbeat The Future Sound of London album Earthbeat compilation and Calcium is from Accelerator . ref cite web url http www.secondthought.co.uk fsol title The Future Sound of London Welcome to the Galaxial Pharmaceutical v7 publisher Secondthought.co.uk date accessdate 2012 03 06 ref Track listing Smart Systems Tingler Four By Four Mix 4 32 Producer Mental Cube Indo Tribe Owl I Can See You Mix 4 52 Producer Mental Cube Indo Tribe Bite The Bullet Baby Jaques Reynoix Mix 4 28 Producer Yage Yage Calcium Elemental Mix 5 08 Producer Luco Crew Artwork By Buggy G Riphead Composed By Brian Dougans, Garry Cobain Executive Producer Tim Jones Producer, Engineer Future Sound Of London, The References Reflist External links discogs release id 58822 name Pulse Three The Future Sound of London DEFAULTSORT Pulse 3 Ep Category 1991 songs Category 1991 EPs Category The Future Sound of London songs ... more details
with the sound effect of a baby cooing. In live performances over the years, Prince would later ... . Appearances in other media The baby cooing sound effect used at the very end of Delirious is sampled ... more details
cm. Their call is a series of soft, staccato cooing notes. In Thailand and Indonesia, the birds are popular as pets because of their calls and cooing competitions are held to find the bird with the best ... more details
Infobox musical artist name Tears Run Rings background group or band origin Los Angeles, California br San Francisco, California br Portland, Oregon genre Shoegazing br Dream pop br Noise pop br Indie pop years active 2006&ndash present label Clairecords associated acts The Autocollants website http www.tearsrunrings.com Official website current members Ed Mazzucco br Laura Watling br Dwayne Palasek br Matthew Bice br Tim Morris musician Tim Morris past members Tears Run Rings is an American dream pop band consisting of singer bassist Laura Watling, singer guitarist Matthew Bice, guitarist Ed Mazzucco, guitarist Tim Morris, and drummer Dwayne Palasek. ref http www.discogs.com artist Tears Run Rings Tears Run Ring Discography at Discogs ref History Ed Mazzucco, Laura Watling, Tim Morris, and Dwayne Palasek have been collaborating various incarnations since the mid 90s. ref Allmusic class artist id p509739 pure url yes allmusic Laura Watling Overview ref In 2007 they released their first EP as Tears Run Rings called A Question and an Answer . ref http www.chlirre.com lavender index.php?page Artists&artist tears 20run 20rings Lavender Recordings ref They later teamed up with Matthew Bice of Shelflife Records ref http www.shelflife.com about.html shelflife records about ref to produce a full length album entitled Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never which was released on Florida s Clairecords ref Allmusic class artist id p1032551 pure url yes allmusic Tears Run Rings Overview ref in April 2008. ref http www.discogs.com Tears Run Rings Always Sometimes Seldom Never release 1523208 Always, Sometimes, Seldom, Never at Discogs ref The album was well reviewed 4 5 stars and drew strong comparisons to Shoegazing shoegaze bands of 20 years earlier may be a dead ringer for Slowdive , right down to their torrents of cascading, distorted, and delayed guitars and ubiquitous male female cooing, with slight seasonings of Moose band Moose , Chapterhouse , and Kitchens of Distinction . ref ... more details
septal defect Symptoms are holosystolic, heard best at left lower sternal border. Cooing dove murmur The cooing dove murmur is a cardiac murmur with a musical quality high pitched hence the name ... more details
Taxobox name Brown Wood Owl image Strix leptogrammica Kakegawa Kacho en, Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan 8a.jpg image width image caption At Kakegawa Kacho en, Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan status LC status LC status system iucn3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Aves ordo Strigiformes familia Strigidae genus Strix genus Strix species S. leptogrammica binomial Strix leptogrammica binomial authority Coenraad Jacob Temminck Temminck , 1831 The Brown Wood Owl , Strix leptogrammica , is an owl which is a resident breeder in south Asia from India and Sri Lanka east to western Indonesia and south China . This species is a part of the family biology family of owls known as typical owl s Strigidae , which contains most species of owl. It belongs to the earless owl genus Strix . The Brown Wood Owl is medium large 45 57 cm , with upperparts uniformly dark brown, with faint white spotting on the shoulders. The underparts are buff with brown streaking. The facial disc is brown or rufous, edged with white and without concentric barring, and the eyes are dark brown. There is a white neckband. The sexes are similar. The call is a hoo hoo hoo HOO or a deep goke goke ga LOOO or a loud scream. The alarm call is a bark, wow wow . Some subspecies are known to produce distinct vocalizations they are also different in appearance and parapatric , and might be distinct species The northern Strix leptogrammica newarensis group Himalayan Wood owl present subspecies newarensis , ticehursti , laotiana and caligata which occur from the Himalaya n foothills of Kashmir east to Taiwan have a soft low to hooh not unlike a rock dove cooing. S. l. bartelsi Bartels s Wood owl , Javan Wood owl from Java , the southeasternmost taxon , has a loud, forceful, single HOOH with long pauses between calls. It is an uncommon resident bird of dense forests. This species is very nocturnal but it can often be located by the small birds that mob it while it is roosting in a tree. It feeds mainly on sma ... more details
Taxobox name Inca Dove image IncaDove.jpg image width 250px status LC status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Columbiformes familia dove Columbidae genus Columbina genus Columbina species C. inca binomial Columbina inca binomial authority Ren Primev re Lesson Lesson , 1847 synonyms Scardafella inca The Inca Dove Columbina inca is a small New World dove it might belong to the genus . It ranges from the Southwestern United States southwestern United States and Mexico through Central America to Costa Rica the Inca Dove only lives on the Pacific Ocean Pacific side of Central America. Despite being named after the Inca Empire , this species does not occur in any of the lands that constituted that region. Inca Doves are common to abundant within their range biology range and they are expanding their range north and south. Inca Doves reach a length of convert 16.5 23 cm in abbr on and weigh convert 30 58 g oz abbr on . ref http www.allaboutbirds.org guide Inca Dove lifehistory 2011 . ref They are slender, with a gray brown body covered in feather s that resemble a scaled pattern. The tail is long and square, edged with white feathers that may flare out in flight. In flight, the underwing is reddish, like other ground doves, and on takeoff, the wings produce a distinctive, quiet rattling noise. This is a terrestrial species which occurs in flocks in open areas including scrubland scrub and cultivation. It will feed in urban area urban areas, eating grass seeds and taking advantage of the ready availability of water from agricultural and suburban irrigation. The song, a forceful cooing rendered variously as cowl coo or POO pup , may be given from a tree, wire, or other open, high perch such as a television aerial. Image Inca Doves nesting.jpg thumb left A pair of Inca Doves nesting During winter, they roost in communal huddles in a pyramid formation that helps them conserve heat. These pyramids can contain up to 12 birds. ref P ... more details
Taxobox image JambaFruitDove.jpg image caption A male at the Cincinnati Zoo status NT status system IUCN3.1 regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Bird Aves ordo Columbiformes familia Columbidae genus Ptilinopus species P. jambu binomial Ptilinopus jambu binomial authority Johann Friedrich Gmelin Gmelin , 1789 The Jambu Fruit Dove , Ptilinopus jambu is a smallish colourful fruit dove . It is a resident breeding species in southern Thailand , Malaysia , Brunei and the Indonesia n islands of Kalimantan , Sumatra and Java . The Jambu Fruit Dove inhabits mangrove swamps and lowland rain forests up to 1,500 m and is also found in second growth woodland. The male holds a breeding territory, advertised by raising its wings, bobbing its body and cooing. It will defend its territory with a quick peck if the territorial display fails. The female builds a flimsy nest of twigs, roots and grasses, which are collected by her mate, in a tree and lays one or sometimes two white eggs which are incubated for about 20 days to hatching, with a further 12 or more days to fledging. The Jambu Fruit Dove is 23 27 cm long and weighs about 42 g. It is a plump small headed bird with soft feathers and very distinctive colouring including a white eye ring, orange Beak bill and red legs. The call is a soft, low coo . The adult male has a crimson face with a black chin, unmarked green upperparts and white underparts, with a pink patch on the breast and a chocolate brown undertail. The female differs from the male in that she has a dull purple face with a dark chin. The underparts are green with a white belly and cinnamon undertail. The immature Jambu Fruit Dove resembles the female but has a green face. The young male acquires its full adult plumage in about 39 weeks from fledging. Immature males are similar in appearance to females. The Jambu Fruit Dove is a shy and inconspicuous bird, camouflaged against the forest canopy by its green plumage. It is usually seen alone or in pair ... more details
for the idiom atic expression Throw out the baby with the bath water Infobox play name Baby with the Bathwater image babywiththebathwater.jpg caption Poster for New York production writer Christopher Durang chorus characters mute setting premiere Start date 1983 03 31 place orig lang English series subject genre web playbill ibdb id iobdb id Unreferenced date May 2009 Baby with the Bathwater is a play by Christopher Durang about a boy named Daisy, his influences, and his eventual outcome. Synopsis Act I Two parents who are completely unprepared for parenthood bring home their newborn baby. The two cannot seem to name the baby . John thinks the baby is a boy , but Helen says the doctors said they could decide later. When the baby cries, the two cannot quite decide what to do. To their rescue comes Nanny who enters their apartment as if by magic, and is full of abrupt shifts of mood, first cooing at the baby soothingly, then screaming at it. In subsequent scene fiction scene s, John and Nanny have an affair , Helen takes baby and leaves, only to come back a moment later rain soaked and unhappy. Act II By the time the baby is a toddler , Daisy has finally been named. At this age Daisy has a penchant for running in front of buses and for lying, depressed, in piles of laundry. The audience hears an alarming essay Daisy has written in school, and the principal, the terrifying Miss Willoughby , is oblivious to the essay s cry for help, and instead gleefully awards it an A for style. Years later, Daisy enters dressed as a girl, but obviously a young man. The audience follows his years of therapy, where he alternates between feelings of depression and anger, and is unable to complete his freshman essay on Gulliver s Travels despite having been in college for five years. In a scene reminiscent of the beginning of the Play theatre play , Daisy who has since chosen a new name and his young bride fondly regard their own baby, determined not to repeat their parents calamitous mis ... more details
Unreferenced date May 2008 Infobox Hollywood cartoon cartoon name Baby Puss series Tom and Jerry image Babypusstitle.jpg caption Title card director William Hanna br Joseph Barbera animator Kenneth Muse br Ray Patterson animator Ray Patterson br Irven Spence br Pete Burness voice actor Sara Berner unc. musician Scott Bradley producer Fred Quimby unc. on original issue distributor studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer cartoon studio Metro Goldwyn Mayer release date Film date 1943 12 25 color process Technicolor runtime 7 51 movie language English language English preceded by The Yankee Doodle Mouse followed by The Zoot Cat Baby Puss is a 1943 one reel animated cartoon and is the 12th Tom and Jerry short subject short directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera and produced by Fred Quimby , Baby Puss was released to theaters on Christmas day , 1943 by Metro Goldwyn Mayer . This is the first Tom and Jerry short to be animated by Ray Patterson animator Ray Patterson , who arrived from Walt Disney Productions after working on The Old Army Game , a Donald Duck cartoon also released in 1943. Except some time spent at Walter Lantz Productions in the 1950s, Patterson would continue to work for Hanna and Barbera into the 1980s. Plot A little girl named Nancy is playing house, and pretending to be a mother and has dressed Tom, apparently the family pet, up to be her baby. She is scolding Tom, who is hiding under some furniture. She drags Tom out by his tail and threatens to spank him. Tom is resentful over his treatment and feels humiliated. She carries him to the bassinet, tucks him in, and shoves a bottle of milk in his mouth. She warns him, under threat of more spanking, to stay in bed while she goes downtown to buy a new girdle . Indignant at first, Tom gets a taste of milk and quickly accepts his lot, cooing like a baby and drinking from his baby bottle. Jerry peeks from behind a doll house and sees Tom. Incredulous at first, Jerry proceeds to mock him by playing Rock a bye Baby on ... more details
Taxobox name Black Crake status LC status system IUCN3.1 image Amaurornis flavirostris.jpg image caption Adult regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis bird Aves ordo Gruiformes familia Rallidae genus Amaurornis species A. flavirostra binomial Amaurornis flavirostra binomial authority William John Swainson Swainson , 1837 The Black Crake , Amaurornis flavirostra , is a waterbird in the rail and crake family Rallidae . It breeds in most of Sahara sub Saharan Africa except in very arid areas. It undertakes some bird migration seasonal movements in those parts of its range which are subject to drought. No subspecies have been described. Description The adult Black Crake is 19&ndash 23 cm long with a short tail and long toes. As its name implies, the adult has mainly black plumage, with a brown olive tone on the wings and upperparts which is rarely detectable in the field. The eye is red, the bill is yellow hence the flavirostra of the binomial name , and the legs and feet are red, duller when not breeding. The sexes are similar, but the male is slightly larger. Most males, but only 10 of females, have a hooked upper mandible. The immature bird has brown upperparts and a dark grey head and underparts. Its bill is greenish yellow, and its feet and legs are dull red. The downy chicks are black, as with all rails. The main call of the Black Crake is a duet, starting with a throaty chattering krrrok kraaaa . The response is a dove dove like cooing coo crr COO . Behaviour Habitat and status The habitat of this common to abundant species is freshwater marsh es of all types, as long as there is some vegetation to provide cover. Many rails are very secretive, but the Black Crake is often seen out in the open. It has benefited from human activity in the form of deforestation, and is rarely hunted because of its unpalatable flesh. Breeding Image Amaurornis flavirostra chick1.jpg upright left thumb Chick The Black Crake is extremely aggressive when breeding and will ... more details
Infobox Album See Wikipedia WikiProject Albums Name Sino Type studio Longtype Artist Caf Tacuba Cover caf tacubasino584x584.png Released October 9, 2007 Recorded Sunset Sound, Hollywood, California br Additional recordings in El Ensayo, Sat lite, M xico Genre Art rock , Latin rock Length 57 35 Label Universal Music Mexico Producer Gustavo Santaolalla Caf Tacvba & Tony Peluso Last album Cuatro Caminos br 2003 This album Sino br 2007 SiNo is the Latin Grammy winning sixth studio album by the Mexican band Caf Tacuba , released on October 9th, 2007, in Mexico, Latin America and the United StatesThe band has once again worked with award winning Argentine music producer Gustavo Santaolalla . Four singles spawned off the album Volver a Comenzar , Esta Vez , V monos , and Quiero Ver . The full album leaked onto the internet on October 6, 2007. On September 10, 2008, Caf Tacvba became the leading nominee at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008 with a total of six nominations Latin Grammy Award for Album of the Year Album of the Year and Latin Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album Alternative Music Album , for Si No . The lead single Volver a Comenzar was shortlisted for Latin Grammy Award for Record of the Year Record of the Year and Best Alternative Song, the second single Esta Vez received nominations for Latin Grammy Award for Best Rock Song Best Rock Song and Latin Grammy Award for Song of the Year Song of the Year . The band took the record for most Latin Grammy s won in one night. Volver a Comenzar is featured prominently in the video game LittleBigPlanet . Track listing Seguir Siendo To continue being 2 42 Tengo Todo I have Everything 3 06 53100 3 43 El Outsider 4 12 Volver a Comenzar Begin again 7 43 Arrullo Cooing 4 15 V monos Let s go 4 02 Cierto O Falso True Or False 3 24 Esta Vez This Time 4 22 De Acuerdo Agree 2 20 Abandonado Abandoned 2 44 Y Es Que... And it is... 2 31 Quiero Ver I want to see 3 25 Agua Water 3 12 Gracias Thanks 5 54 Band members Ixaya M ... more details
old infant cooing in response to caregiver.ogv thumb A 14 week old infant cooing as she interacts with a caregiver 51 seconds 6 16 weeks Cooing and laughter Infants produce cooing sounds when they are content. Cooing is often triggered by social interaction with caregivers and resembles the production ... of cooing at 6 to 8 weeks happens as some areas of the limbic system begin to function. The limbic system is known to be involved in the expression of emotion, and cooing in infants is associated ... more details
territory and food supply, will build nests in trees, usually close to roads. Cooing In Wendell Levi s The Pigeon , he describes the crowing cooing of pigeons as mostly being associated with strutting ... than the cooing of the cock. Cooing is also more frequent between couples during mating and nesting ... more details
Taxobox name King Eider status LC status system IUCN3.1 status ref ref IUCN2006 assessors BirdLife International year 2004 id 47225 title Somateria spectabilis downloaded 11 May 2006 Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern ref image Somateria spectabilis Central Park Zoo, New York, USA male 8a.jpg image caption Male at Central Park Zoo , New York, USA image width 300px regnum Animal ia phylum Chordate Chordata classis Aves ordo Anseriformes familia Anatidae subfamilia Merginae genus Somateria species S. spectabilis binomial Somateria spectabilis binomial authority Carolus Linnaeus Linnaeus , 1758 The King Eider Somateria spectabilis is a large Merginae sea duck that breeds along northern hemisphere Arctic coasts of northeast Europe , North America and Asia . The birds spend most of the year in coastal marine ecosystems at high latitudes, and migrate to Arctic tundra to breed in June and July. They lay 4 7 eggs in a scrape on the ground lined with grass and down. The King Eider bird migration winters in arctic and subarctic marine areas, most notably in the Bering Sea, the west coast of Greenland, eastern Canada and northern Norway . It also occurs annually off the northeastern United States , Scotland and Kamchatka Peninsula Kamchatka . Breeding areas include the Arctic coastal tundra of the north coast of Alaska . This species dives for Benthic zone benthic invertebrates like crustacean s, polychaete worms, and mollusc s, with mussel s being a favoured food. Wintering birds can form large flocks on suitable coastal waters, with some flocks exceeding 100,000 birds. Image King Eider female RWD5.jpg left thumb Female at Alaska Sea Life Center, Seward, Alaska This species is smaller than the Common Eider . The male is unmistakable with its black body, white breast and multicoloured head. The drake s call is a deep cooing. The female occasionally colloquially referred to as a Queen Eider ref http www3.hi.is yannk diary mar06.htm Se ... more details
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