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Common Eider southern race (Somateria mollissima dresseri) hens with young and "aunts" (nonbreeding females who travel with ducklings and their moms to help protect from predators) gather in small flocks to sleep and feed along the Atlantic Ocean shoreline in late spring near Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
Thomas Kitchin & Victoria Hurst/leesonphoto. All Rights Reserved.
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