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Finland: hunting restricted for three duck species, but jackdaws now fair game

17 August 2018 Yle News 0 Comments animals, birds, common pochards, conservation, ducks, habitat, hunting, Jackdaws, long-tailed ducks, red-breasted mergansers, wetlands

Finland’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry has banned the hunting of two types of diving duck for the next three

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New federal project to count eider population poisoned by shot in Alaska

23 March 201723 March 2017 Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News 0 Comments Bering Sea, birds, ducks, research, wildlife

Threatened spectacled eiders, sea ducks that have died in large numbers after ingesting lead from hunters’ spent ammunition, will be

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Researchers return to Canada’s Arctic to study flora, ducks

6 July 20157 July 2015 Caroline Arbour 0 Comments Arctic, Biodiversity, botany, ducks, eider ducks, flora, Nunavut, plants, waterfowl

A pair of botanists that have spent four years documenting local plant life in Nunavut are back in the

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With no caribou on their islands, Inuit on the Belcher Islands have relied on eider ducks for food and clothing for generations. Here, an Inuit woman wearing a traditional eider skin parka collects duck eggs in a still photo from the film "People of a Feather." (Joel Heath/The Canadian Press)

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Nunavut Canada community revives eiderdown business

26 June 201519 March 2018 Eilís Quinn, Eye on the Arctic 0 Comments culture, ducks, Inuit, jobs, Sanikiluaq

A small Inuit community in Canada’s eastern Arctic territory of Nunavut is reviving its eiderdown business, something it hopes provides

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