Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1893- Duck Islands: Wild Birds
An eider duckling
“The Falcon arrived at the Duck islands on the south side of Melville Bay about noon… We found birds very scarce, and the few remaining females were very wild, probably the result of five whalers stopping there during June.” -Robert E. Peary, Northward over the Great Ice, published in 1898
"Eider - duckling, mounted", Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
