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#EiderDucks flyby

Love this one :-)

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Using single-use cold-chain temp loggers to monitor Eider Duck nests: we put out Nest Shelters for eider ducks, and in them placed a single use temp logger as an alternative to more expensive and widely used iButton loggers.

It wasn't massively successful, as the ducks tended to kick out the loggers from the nests. However this one sort of worked - you can see mam duck keeping the nest at a constant temperature!
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I'm writing about Eiders again and was reminded about the wonderful Ethnoecology of Eider Farmers in Iceland, a PhD by Gilles Chen, that looks at the relationship between eiders and humans in Iceland

https://www.hi.is/sites/default/files/mas/onnur_skjol/report_english_gilles_25_april.pdf

It discusses all aspects of the tradition of eider down farming, which I was researching to see if we could apply any of it to conservation of this species here in the UK and these islands

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