Steller's Eider
Polysticta stelleri (Pallas, PS 1769)
| Species name | Recordist | Date | Location | Remarks | Cat.nr. |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Andrew Spencer | 2014-06-29 | Utqiagvik (Barrow)--Winter Trail tundra pools, North Slope, Alaska, United States, North Slope (United States) | - calls from the female of a pair of birds at close range on a large pool in open, wet tundra. Also note the crackling sounds near the beginning of the recording, made by the male while the female was underwater - I'm unsure how that sound was made, but presumably it is mechanical. | 63144351 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Andrew Spencer | 2013-06-13 | Barrow - general area, North Slope, Alaska, United States, North Slope (United States) | - display sounds from two male and two female birds together on a small tundra melt pond. During the display both the males and the females would lift their bills and upper bodies and then bring them back down again in a 'chin-lift' display. Most of the quacking calls are from the female birds, which were by far the more vocal, but some of the longer, lower stuttering quacking came from the male birds. There are also two times in the cut (at 0:01 and 2:14) where the males give a whistle call that I think is their true display vocalization. As far as I know this recording represents the first of Steller's Eider display and the first of this species on the breeding grounds. | 31729061 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Andrew Spencer | 2014-06-29 | Gaswell Road, Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska, North Slope (United States) (0 m) | call - natural vocalization; calls from the female of a pair of birds at close range on a large pool in open, wet tundra. Also note the crackling sound at 0:02, made by the male while the female was underwater - I'm unsure how that sound was made, but presumably it is mechanical. bird-seen:yes playback-used:no
|
203462 xeno-canto.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Andrew Spencer | 2014-06-29 | Nunavak Road, Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska, North Slope (United States) (0 m) | wing noise - wing noise from a male bird taking off from open, wet tundra. bird-seen:yes playback-used:no
|
203480 xeno-canto.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Andrew Spencer | 2013-06-13 | Freshwater Lake, Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska, North Slope (United States) (10 m) | display - natural vocalization; display sounds from two male and two female birds together on a small tundra melt pond. During the display both the males and the females would lift their bills and upper bodies and then bring them back down again in a 'chin-lift' display. Most of the quacking calls are from the female birds, which were by far the more vocal, but some of the longer, lower stuttering quacking came from the male birds. There are also two times in the cut (at 0:01 and 2:14) where the males give a whistle call that I think is their true display vocalization. As far as I know this recording represents the first of Steller's Eider display and the first of this species on the breeding grounds. bird-seen:yes playback-used:no |
139711 xeno-canto.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Andrew Spencer | 2014-06-29 | Utqiagvik (Barrow)--Nunavak Road, North Slope, Alaska, United States, North Slope (United States) | - wing noise from a male bird taking off from open, wet tundra. | 63144421 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Ukolov Ilya | 2018-04-24 | Allaikhovsky District, Sakha Republic, Sakha, Republic of (Russian Federation) (10 m) | call, female, flight call, male, wing noise - [sono] | 424292 xeno-canto.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Nathan Pieplow | 2018-06-30 | , North Slope (United States) | - | 616105640 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Bob McGuire | 2017-06-30 | , Sakha, Republic of (Russian Federation) | - | 231286 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Jessie Barry | 2011-03-24 | Womens Bay, Kodiak Island, Alaska, United States, Kodiak Island (United States) | - | 139447 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Frank Lambert | 2015-06-13 | Freshwater Lake, Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska, North Slope (United States) (10 m) | call - bird-seen:yes playback-used:no
|
277098 xeno-canto.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Patrik Åberg | 2017-06-13 | Barrow, North Slope Borough, Alaska, North Slope (United States) (0 m) | flight call - bird-seen:yes playback-used:no
|
406366 xeno-canto.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Miles Brengle | 2024-06-15 | , North Slope (United States) | - | 620475905 macaulaylibrary.org |
| Steller's Eider - Polysticta stelleri | Andrew Spencer | 2017-06-30 | RU-Sakha-Bulunskiy ulus (72.6933,127.3725), Sakha, Respublika, Russia, Sakha, Republic of (Russian Federation) | - Wing whistle from a male bird flushing off a large tundra pool. Baikal Teal call in the background in the middle of the recording. | 63596801 macaulaylibrary.org |
![[sono]](http://www.xeno-canto.org/sounds/uploaded/CEYSYKSPYR/ffts/XC424292-large.png){kind=link}
Xeno-Canto: all recordings are copyrighted by their recordists and appear here under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5 License.
Macaulay Library recordings appear here under the Macaulay Library Terms of Use.
Avibase has been visited 503,403,835 times since 24 June 2003. © Denis Lepage | Privacy policy
