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The king eider, or qengallek (pronounced [qə.ˈŋaː.ɬək]) in Yup'ik, is a regular source of fresh meat in the spring. They begin their migration past the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta in late April and are hunted in great numbers. In May, several hundred thousand king eiders pass Point Barrow in northern Alaska on their way to Alaskan and Canadian ...
Strips of seal meat hang on a rack to dry at a summer subsistence camp. The dark meat is rich in oil to fuel hard work and keep people warm in the arctic. Cape Krusenstern National Monument in northwestern Alaska, June 2008. Muktuk drying at Point Lay, Alaska. June 24, 2007. Marine mammals as food are only seals and beluga whale. Seals were the ...
Somateria fischeri (von Brandt 1847) (spectacled eider) NT; Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus 1758) (king eider) LC; Somateria mollissima (Linnaeus 1758) (common eider) NT. S. m. v-nigrum Bonaparte & Gray 1855 (Pacific eider) S. m. borealis (Brehm 1824) (northern eider) S. m. sedentaria Snyder 1941 (Hudson Bay eider) S. m. dresseri Sharpe 1871 ...
Spring to fall is the primary season for hunting birds. Among others, the Greenlandic Inuit hunt dovekie, common and king eider, ptarmigan, thick-billed murre, and a variety of sea gulls. [10] Additionally, kittiwake and ptarmigan are hunted on the east coast. [7] Sometimes wild eggs are gathered by hunters. [6]
Instead of meat, the “burger” — which technically is more of a sandwich — has 20 slices of American cheese, placed cocktail napkin-style in a pile between two buns.
Common eider (Somateria mollissima) Spectacled eider (Somateria fischeri) King eider (Somateria spectabilis) Eider may also refer to: Steller's eider (Polysticta stelleri) of the duck subfamily Merginae; Eider (river), in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany; Eider (Amt Kirchspielslandgemeinde), a collective municipality in Dithmarschen, Schleswig ...
The genus Somateria was introduced in 1819 to accommodate the king eider by the English zoologist William Leach in an appendix to John Ross's account of his voyage to look for the Northwest Passage. [4] [5] The name is derived from Ancient Greek σῶμα : sōma "body" (stem somat-) and ἔριον : erion "wool", referring to eiderdown. [6]
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