A female King Eider feeds just off the shore of the Ottawa River at Andrew Haydon Park. It appears to be as tame as one of our local mallards which are very used to having people around. A very rare species to see in the Ottawa area, the last recorded sighting was some 20 years ago.

"The King Eider winters in arctic and subarctic marine areas, most notably in the Bering Sea, the west coast of Greenland, eastern Canada and northern Norway. It also occurs annually off the northeastern United States, Scotland and Kamchatka. Breeding areas include the Arctic coastal tundra of the north coast of Alaska." - Wikipedia

More photos and species info here: http://www.oiseaux-birds.com/card-king-eider.html