Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 03/25/2008 - 09:05

What does the Spectacled Eiders eat and how do they look like as when they dive down the water/sky?

Craig Kasemodel

90% of their diet consists of nuculana bivalves. I have yet to see them underwater in real life but I have seen some video from Dr Lovvorn that he took of them diving in his lab during experiments. They are not quite the graceful diver or 'underwater fliers', one might expect for a bird that dives 70m deep. But they do utilize both the legs and wings to dive.