Animalia > Chordata > Aves > Anseriformes > Anatidae > Polysticta > Polysticta stelleriPolysticta stelleri (Steller's Eider)Synonyms: Anas spec; Anas stelleri (homotypic); Polystica stelleri; Somateria stelleri Language: French The Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri) is a smallish sea duck that breeds along the Arctic coasts of eastern Siberia and Alaska. |
Uniqueness Scale: Similiar (0) Unique (100) Uniqueness & Vulnerability Scale: Similiar & Secure (0) Unique & Vulnerable (100) ED Score: 5.8129 EDGE Score: 3.30511 |
| Adult Weight [1] | 1.814 lbs (823 g) | | Birth Weight [3] | 58 grams |  | | Breeding Habitat [2] | Arctic tundra | | Wintering Geography [2] | Arctic Coast | | Wintering Habitat [2] | Coastal marine | | | Diet [4] | Carnivore (Invertebrates), Piscivore | | Diet - Fish [4] | 20 % | | Diet - Invertibrates [4] | 80 % | | Forages - Water Surface [4] | 20 % | | Forages - Underwater [4] | 80 % | | | Clutch Size [7] | 7 | | Clutches / Year [6] | 1 | | Fledging [5] | 50 days | | Global Population (2017 est.) [2] | 93,000 | | Incubation [6] | 26 days | | Maximum Longevity [6] | 23 years | | Migration [8] | Intercontinental | | Snout to Vent Length [5] | 18 inches (46 cm) | | Speed [9] | 48.989 MPH (21.9 m/s) | | Wing Span [10] | 27 inches (.69 m) | | | Female Maturity [6] | 2 years | | Male Maturity [6] | 2 years |
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Countries |
Ecozone |
Biome |
Species |
Report |
Climate |
Land
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Amur meadow steppe |
China, Russia |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Arctic coastal tundra |
Canada, United States |
Nearctic |
Tundra |
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Arctic desert |
Norway, Russia |
Palearctic |
Tundra |
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Baltic mixed forests |
Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Poland |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Beringia lowland tundra |
United States |
Nearctic |
Tundra |
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Central European mixed forests |
Austria, Belarus, Czech Republic, Germany, Lithuania, Moldovia, Poland, Romania, Russia, Ukraine |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Chukchi Peninsula tundra |
Russia |
Palearctic |
Tundra |
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Da Hinggan-Dzhagdy Mountains conifer forests |
China, Russia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Hokkaido montane conifer forests |
Japan |
Palearctic |
Temperate Coniferous Forests |
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Manchurian mixed forests |
Republic of Korea, Dem. People's Rep of Korea, China, Russia |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Northeast Siberian coastal tundra |
Russia |
Palearctic |
Tundra |
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Novosibirsk Islands arctic desert |
Russia |
Palearctic |
Tundra |
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Sarmatic mixed forests |
Belarus, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Russia, Sweden |
Palearctic |
Temperate Broadleaf and Mixed Forests |
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Scandinavian Montane Birch forest and grasslands |
Norway, Sweden, Finland |
Palearctic |
Tundra |
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Suiphun-Khanka meadows and forest meadows |
China, Russia |
Palearctic |
Flooded Grasslands and Savannas |
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Taimyr-Central Siberian tundra |
Russia |
Palearctic |
Tundra |
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Location |
IBA Criteria |
Website |
Climate |
Land Use |
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Baby Islands and Akutan Pass |
USA |
A4i, A4ii |
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Bezymyannaya and Gribovaya Bays and adjoining waters |
Russia (European) |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii, B1i, B1ii, B3 |
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Cape Senyavin |
USA |
A4i |
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Chiniak Bay |
USA |
A1, A4i |
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Cinder River and Hook Lagoon |
USA |
A1, A4i |
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Commander islands |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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First Kuril strait |
Russia (Asian) |
A4i, A4iii |
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Indigirka delta |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Izembek and Moffet Lagoons |
USA |
A1, A4i |
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Karaginskiy island |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Kolyma delta |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Koorunõmme |
Estonia |
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C3 |
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Korfa bay (northern part) |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Küdema bay |
Estonia |
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C2, C3, C6 |
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Kuril islands (between Urup and Paramushir) |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A4i, A4ii, A4iii |
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Kvichak Bay |
USA |
A1, A4i |
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Lågskär-Nyhamn |
Finland |
A1, A4i, B1i, B1ii, C1, C3 |
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Lena delta |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A4i, A4iii |
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Marine waters along the continental part of Lithuania |
Lithuania |
A1, A4i, A4iii, B1i |
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Nelson Lagoon-Mud Bay |
USA |
A1, A4i |
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Port Heiden |
USA |
A1, A4i |
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Port Moller-Herendeen Bay |
USA |
A1, A4i |
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Seashore at Palanga |
Latvia |
A4i, B1i |
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Seskar island |
Russia (European) |
A1, A4i, B1i |
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Solovetski Archipelago and Zjizjginski island |
Russia (European) |
A1, A4i, B1i, B2 |
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Tagamõisa peninsula |
Estonia |
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C2, C3 |
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Terpyay-Tumus |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A3, A4i |
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Terski coast |
Russia (European) |
A1, A4i, B1i |
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Vankarem lowlands and Kolyuchin bay |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A2, A3, A4i |
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Varangerfjord |
Norway |
A1, A3, A4i, A4iii, B1i |
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Vilsandi archipelago |
Estonia |
A1, A4i, B1i, C1, C2, C3, C6 |
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Yana delta |
Russia (Asian) |
A1, A3, A4i |
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 Attributes / relations provided by ♦ 1Storchová, Lenka; Hořák, David (2018), Data from: Life-history characteristics of European birds, Dryad, Dataset, https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.n6k3n ♦ 2Partners in Flight Avian Conservation Assessment Database, version 2017. Accessed on January 2018. ♦ 3Terje Lislevand, Jordi Figuerola, and Tamás Székely. 2007. Avian body sizes in relation to fecundity, mating system, display behavior, and resource sharing. Ecology 88:1605 ♦ 4Hamish Wilman, Jonathan Belmaker, Jennifer Simpson, Carolina de la Rosa, Marcelo M. Rivadeneira, and Walter Jetz. 2014. EltonTraits 1.0: Species-level foraging attributes of the world's birds and mammals. Ecology 95:2027 ♦ 5Nathan P. Myhrvold, Elita Baldridge, Benjamin Chan, Dhileep Sivam, Daniel L. Freeman, and S. K. Morgan Ernest. 2015. An amniote life-history database to perform comparative analyses with birds, mammals, and reptiles. Ecology 96:3109 ♦ 6de Magalhaes, J. P., and Costa, J. (2009) A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 22(8):1770-1774 ♦ 7Jetz W, Sekercioglu CH, Böhning-Gaese K (2008) The Worldwide Variation in Avian Clutch Size across Species and Space PLoS Biol 6(12): e303. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0060303 ♦ 8Myers, P., R. Espinosa, C. S. Parr, T. Jones, G. S. Hammond, and T. A. Dewey. 2006. The Animal Diversity Web (online). Accessed February 01, 2010 at animaldiversity.org♦ 9Alerstam T, Rosén M, Bäckman J, Ericson PGP, Hellgren O (2007) Flight Speeds among Bird Species: Allometric and Phylogenetic Effects. PLoS Biol 5(8): e197. doi:10.1371/journal.pbio.0050197 ♦ 10Wildlife As Canon Sees It♦ 11Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics. ♦ 12Gibson, D. I., Bray, R. A., & Harris, E. A. (Compilers) (2005). Host-Parasite Database of the Natural History Museum, London Ecoregions provided by World Wide Fund For Nature (WWF). WildFinder: Online database of species distributions, ver. 01.06 Wildfinder Database |
Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0
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