King eider

King eider Temporal range: Pleistocene–present PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Adult male in northern Norway
Conservation status
Least Concern  (IUCN 3.1)[1]
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Class:	Aves
Order:	Anseriformes
Family:	Anatidae
Genus:	Somateria
Species:	S. spectabilis
Binomial name
Somateria spectabilis (Linnaeus, 1758)
breeding range    nonbreeding range
Synonyms
Anas spectabilis Linnaeus, 1758

The king eider (pronounced /ˈaɪ.dər/) (Somateria spectabilis) is a large 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 four to seven eggs in a scrape on the ground lined with grass and down.