Word: eiderly
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Perhaps you would fancy an 'Ode to an Eider-duck...
...Freshman lineup showed Eider, at number 1, Drag, at number 2, and W. Stablear at back...
Balance Posnet was a horse-thief and a drunkard. Feemy Evans was a liar and a trull. Hard people, these pioneers of the good old West. Their callused souls were untouched by the points exhortations of the godly Eider panicles. Blanco Posnet and Feemy Exans were had; they forsook the straight and narrow, and travelled the primrose path to hell. They called on the devil and they sneered at God Bad Bard...
...limit of 15 is continued. The possession limit is double the bag limit. There is a limit of ten to a bag on canvasback, redhead, scaup, ringneck, all teals, gadwalls and shovellers. The bag limit on eider ducks is five. Ruddy ducks and buffle-heads are added to the protected list. The bag limit on mourning doves is reduced from 25 to 18. The limit on live decoys (last year, ten) is 25, except in California, where they are protected...
Labrador (see map) is a vast and draughty triangle nearly three times the size of Newfoundland. It contains many a lake. The eider duck and the hair seal are disappearing, but on the word of Medical Missionary Sir Wilfred Thomason Grenfell, the country is infested with mice "of many varieties." A will-of-the-wisp to Labrador explorers and Labrador investors are the perennial stories of a great-unexploited gold field somewhere up the Hamilton River...