This isn't something that's just been started, this has been going on for centuries. The eider ducks prefer this as in return the farmers help keep foxes away.
@@helene4397 True, but they can't tell just from looking at it. I never saw her pick the egg up and take a flashlight or some light source to the egg so they could look if there was a bird embryo in there.
But she said they colect only part of the nest or everything if it is empty... Pretty sure it would be quite obvious if their methods was being too harmful.
odds are they were just recreating the scene for this clip, using down she already harvested and prop eggs. Having a crew follow her around until she finds a natural nest could take hours or even days, why do that when you can just use materials already on hand to demonstrate the concept
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That's like saying you are gathering while you are harvesting your crops. Ofcourse it's both farming. Both farmers have dedicated land for their respective industry.
I doubt these corporations would publicly speak about what they're doing if they violated these ducks, the biodiversity and if they conducted a form of animal abuse. All the ducklings probably leave together with its family, and the eiderdown left ends up redundant which leaves to these corporations being able to ethically use it.
@@bennydarko did you not watch the video? Those ducks are severely protected and harvesting the eggs would be illegal. Don’t be a dumbass and make assumptions
I hate to see that. The nest still contain eggs and she took it 90% from the nest. She come by car and look very stylish also using so many ring. But she can't bear to see the eggs provided enough by their mother so that they could hatch properly. She is a thief What a shame things human woman did to another animal that willing to share her feather for the comfort of her eggs. I wonder if other creature would do the same to that woman children.
@@luciana-hs8cg But she's taking the feathers from the nest in the spring. The feathers are used for insulation in the winter. The eggs will hatch as the weather gets warmer. To the birds, these feathers are otherwise wasted after winter.
@@saureco I live in tropical country. Even here we give the extra warm for the eggs so that it can hatch properly. Sometimes it means lamp to keep the eggs warm enough. And don't you see the picture shown to us before? How the little bird safely play and covered by their mother with their full nest that hug them, the proper way the bird provide their best for their next generation? Those feather act as their blanket and home and pillow if you will. How can you said that your baby not need those things until they totally not need that? The next time all those eggs left, if miracle happen than it can hatch, then they should life in rough environment, stone under their body, cold because their feather is not properly develop yet and not anything protect them from wind and they become hungrier because their metabolism should survive the weather.
If that's what she does when the camera is filming, I'd imagine her slam dunking the eggs into a frying pan and taking 100% of the nest when she's alone.
Or, and follow me here, the film crew deliberately mainly used the clips where she took from nests with eggs to create the exact reaction in the comment section you see here for increased level of engagement, which youtube loves so much.
@@arturravenbite1693 There are actually experts in the comments speaking about how the way she is doing it is wrong. Obviously we can’t know they’re telling the truth but we can all use our eyes and common sense to see she’s basically taking the entire nest.
She didn’t say she harvest only abandoned nest tho. She did say she only takes some of the active nests. Which she obviously takes way more than she originally let on.
She didn't take the entire nest. U probably have to watch it again. If you notice, she sit aside the eggs, grab the whole nest and pluck few of it. Laid back to the ground and returned the eggs.
@Thornback I am not saying I know anything about Eider, but I have watched videos of plenty of birds that actually do continue to nest in horrible conditions. So I don't know that you point about then leaving if not treated well is accurate.
“we only take a small amount” proceeds to take 99.99% of the nest while the eggs are still there and leave a patch just to say they didnt take 100%. shameful to be honest
"sustainably sourced" as she proceeds to place the unhatched eggs to the side, harvests their warm nest and returns the eggs to a single remaining feather
I agree with you, and she is crooked, and I'm going to say 95%, she didn't wait for them to leave the nest like she said. When the babies die because they have no nest to hatch and be warm because she took it all I hope she will be happy. Greedy people are never satisfied.
@@crazy808ish Ummm yes, since she lied and said she waited for the birds to leave the nest, and clearly they didn't. I don't put anything past liars or greedy people who sell comforters for 8,000 a piece. It's called supply and demand which is why people kill Rhinos for their horns, club baby seals, take sharks fins and drop them back in the ocean to die, etc. Also, she is on camera for the show only not always.
@@sinaimuse6562 0:50 "either by taking small amounts from each nest, or waiting for the birds to disappear completely" Now you can argue that that wasn't a small amount, but don't act like they didn't mention both ways. "Also, she is on camera for the show only not always." EXACTLY. If she was on camera and doing something wrong, she would take only a tiny bit just for show, and then off camera take the rest. She wouldn't take all that on video if it wasn't alright! She can afford to pretend on one nest if she wanted to.
Um she practically took more than 80% of the nest I- if that’s how much she collects when filmed how much does she really actually collect when not filmed...:(
Not to mention that she says that the nest goes to waste when the ducks leave. I'm fairly certain that the down would get picked over by several species of birds and other animals for building their homes and to use as nesting material. Very little goes to waste in nature--it doesn't matter whether you're on top of a mountain, at sea level, or several kilometers under the ocean.
With todays technology, they could easily mark each nest they find then come to remove the nests near the end of the season, you will loose couple of nests, but you ensure less stress on the birds that no longer need to rebuild 90% of their nest and a lower loss of eggs meaning more ducks, meaning more down in the future.
not if you are worried someone else is going to come and take it. Apparently its big money. Its just like animal racing, whom ever is willing to do what others aren't is going to be most successful.
down covered in bird crap would be my guess the abandoned nest is lower quality. This is why the woman was stealing like 80% of that nest. The eggs look barely warm.
@@thegreatfellow you don't justify wrongdoing with something worse. It's like saying "At least they didn't kill or eat them like cannibals." to abusers. Something worse doesn't justify something else that is also wrong.
@@lavendertears1814 "something worse" is what you're calling poultry farms. It is regarded as normal all around the world and that's how you get chicken on your plate. When that is not considered wrong by people couldn't they do the same thing in the case of Eiders as well. P.S: please check the meaning of cannibal.
It really worth paying attention and listen and not jump to conclusions, especially if you have no knowledge of the subject whatsoever. She left some amount, which, i assume, in a course of centuries of practice was determined to be sufficient for eggs to survive. Birds parents will rebuild the nest - they constantly do this in a wild. Practice obviously benefits the birds, as population statistics proves, so the only danger to poor birds will be self-righteous ignorant RU-vid commenters, like yourself.
Ivan Huynh but what if I want to feel cold in the scorching summer just so I can be warm and cozy? I turn my industrial grade AC to 40F and snug myself under eider down blanket. 👌
Wtf, she took the whole nest!! And that was when the cameras were on her. I just can guess how much are left when she is not being filmed... In northern Norway we have been harvesting Eiderdown for centuries. But they makes small sheds for the ducks to make their nests in, and wait for the family to leave their nests before taking the down. Often the ducks come back year after year, and gets so familiar to the «farmer» that they don’t care when they check on the nests. The ducks benefits enormously on this, because the farmer protects them from predators, especially cats, mink, foxes and seagulls, and provide them with shelter. But unfortunatly the practise have been dying out, literally, as the old generation who have been doing this for decades are getting old, and very few young people care to take over. And the Eider population are declining, and they are suspecting that the loss of Eiderdown farmers are part of the decline.
Man ok so now everybody is an expert on eiderdown ducks? The eggs are fine. The mother comes back and accepts her eggs. This does not harm them. The nest is also fine. When the mother comes back she replenishes the nest to a point like she would after a storm or something, and the nest is not plucked again. There are only select areas the eiderdown can be picked here and there is a reason iceland produces 80%, its because we have an extremely high population of these ducks. Calm down, jesus, its not like most of you would be this vigilant for your t-bone steak or chicken wings. These practises work, the ducks come back every year, none of them die and their population is not in decline in Iceland.
@@lapatron555 this is what I thought would be the case but I'm not sure if you've heard of this new fad called outrage culture, it's all the rage, all the kids are super into it. Basically you get outraged at online content so you can virtue signal how good of a person you are by caring about an issue that's not really an issue until it becomes an issue. Welcome to 2021!
me: “oh ok she’s taking a small amount and then she’s gonna put the nest back down that’s go-“ her: *takes the ENTIRE NEST AND LEAVES LESS THAN A HANDFUL*
They said if the birds are there they take a little but if the mother leaves then that is when they take more. The mothers remake their nests relatively quickly and otherwise the wind destroys them anyways.
The eggs need insulation down to the ground. She left the bottom of the nest (you can't really see the bottom of the nest since it was filmed from the side and this angle was obscured by the grass.) the upper part of the nest, around and between the eggs are uncompressed feathers and will blow away during nesting season. In Norway it's traditional to build tiny wooden or stone "houses" on unpopulated islets for the Eiderduck, so the feathers don't blow away and can be harvested after the birds has left. But only in parts of Norway where this practice has continued for hundreds (or thousands) of years are the Eiderduck keen on building their nests "inside". And a farmer may several hundred Eiderduck "homes" over several dozen islets to build/maintain, with a portion of the "homes" being inhabited in a given year.
If they didn't leave enough, they wouldn't have any thing to harvest next year. I trust that people who have been doing this their whole lives know what they're doing.
@@herzogsbuick Exactly, i could not find the correct words. If they wouldn´t preserve it, they wouldn´t have nothing to look for. Thanks for your comment.
It's because it's so warm... People are too damn greedy though. If people can afford this for a duvet, surely those people can afford a warm house with locally sources alternatives (as they probably export this).
Hmmm maybe if people like the woman in the video stopped taking 90% of the nest leaving the eggs and ducks with little options for keeping it warm they wouldn't have such issues.
@@evalonia Even if they take 100% of the nest, there's a billion artificial, cheap, animal safe insulators they could use. This isn't just about money, this is being a prick
How is it ethical? Why is it unethical? This practice has been refined over centuries in a way that maintains the population of birds. The reason it is expensive is not ethicality but scarcity due to the regulations of the Icelandic government to maintain ethicality and prevent practices like battery farming.
Yes it is… You’re just being emotional. The ducks literally just build new nests. It is ten times more ethical than any slaughterhouse operating in the USA or UK…..
@@boass lol wasn't anticipating to being called emotional (especially when this is 7 months old and has as little as 38 likes). . Either way, it was more of the juxtaposition of what she was saying compared to what she was doing on on camera. But imagine a wee little child with cotton candy had a random stranger say "don't worry, I'm ethically sourcing this" as they proceed to snatch 98% of the candy for themselves. To me it's little sad and funny, so it elicited more of a smirk and an eye roll from me more than anything.
Imagine hating this video when there are humans burning the forests, polluting the oceans in which homes to billions of animals, uhm right just forget about those
I thought they said they wait until the birds are gone before collecting ? And here she goes disrupting the nest and taking everything which is clearly still inhabited
Never heard of it before but just discovered the word eiderdown was "translated" to edredom in Portuguese a word we use to refer to warmer blankets but they don't have any eiderdown on it lol
Once the nest is removed, the bird has to rebuild it. Having to rebuild an entire nest imposes a lot of stress on the birds, so it’s harmful to them. They should wait for the eggs to hatch before taking away their nests.
exactly. and people are like "the ducks are protected, they're not close to extinction or anything." why do we need something to be on the brink of never existing again to care? so annoying
Plus birds don't grow feathers fast enough to keep fixing their nests. Take most of the nest will leave the birds with having to try taking down feathers where they already depleted on their bodies. The amount of nest she takes is overkill and leaves the eggs exposed and cold and has a higher likely hood of killing developing birds in the eggs if she does this to a nest that isn't new.
@@edmer68 Ikr, I am so glad these experts have come out to condemn these professional practitioners, maybe I should become a warrior of the keyboard, then I'd be able to master any profession in under 10 minutes!
I read about this practice in Jules Verne's "Journey to the centre of the Earth"... and that was written in the late half of the 1800's, it's amazing to see how this practice continues to this day in the exact same modus operandi as described in the novel. For those wondering about her taking most of the nests feathers, if Jules Verne's research into the matter is correct: They DO take all or nearly all the feathers, then they wait for the female eiderduck to pluck more feathers and redo it, then they collect them again until the female doesn't have any more of the priced chest feathers and then the male eiderduck redoes the nest. However, male eiderduck feathers are stiff and have no value so the collectors leave, the nest is finally left alone and the ducklings hatch with no problems.
She literally took 95% of the nest while the eggs were still in the nest. Imagine how much she would of taken if she wasn't being filmed. I will never buy this product.
you're making assumptions based on information you dont know, if this was a problem there would be a decline in their population or at least they would move away but neither of those things are happening, ducks arent humans, they dont care about comfort as much as they care about the effectiveness, as long as they reproduce fine and live healthy lives there really isnt a problem with it, and if you see this so abhorrently go look at the fur farmers in northern Europe, that is 100x worse than this situation.
@@brockcockren8643 Biologically the feathers serve a purpose to those eggs and mother nature didn't design these animals with the intent of having the feathers removed. Give your a head a shake. Why would the woman even say that they only take "SOME" of the feathers? It's because she understands that the feathers serve a purpose! It's too bad she took 95% of them for money though.
"We only take a little from the nest or wait until the nest is abandoned." Proceeds to go to a nest and take 90% of all the feathers there. I'm pretty sure that if the people don't take the down, native animals will still use it in their nests for warmth.
"Eiderdown farmers will harvest this down either by taking small amounts from each nest or by waiting for the birds to dissapear completely" Notice the words: either, or and bird. They will either take small amounts while the bird is there or larger amounts when they arent. If the birds are not there then they take larger amounts. Nothing here is contradictory nor is it unethical. If anything this is beneficial as farmers are now invested in the safety of the bird populations. The fact that oftentimes the wind will blow away the nest if the birds are not present and the birds return and remake it is no different to when it the nest is taken with the minimum left for the eggs to survive. Either way: no birds are being harmed, no eggs are being harmed and this practice in contrast to ones like whaling have not had any adverse effects on the population of these birds.
@@ThatOneBreadstickEater There are still eggs at 1:20, so its not abaddoned nest. If you take entire 90% of nest while there are still eggs, eggs will lose their heat and may die before preparing new nest
It depends on the farmer, some wait for them to leave completely and take the entire nest, while other don’t wait and take around 80% of the nest leaving 20% for the eggs (which is enough). Thats what’s evident in the video.
@@raminajm2163 is it though? Because frankly I don't see any evidence that shows that the down that's left is enough to keep the chicks nest safe. Also how can we really believe what she says when she so obviously becomes hypocritical from how she says "we take a small amount" then proceeds to take 80% + of the nest material. Litterally no one would agree that above half is a small amount, and the majority of people would agree that a small amount is something below 30% of the total.
Yet this practice has been around for 1000 and they’re still here. You’re a genius. Go live in Iceland for a while and see it first hand before you judge. Been and seen this first hand and it’s a perfect relationship between man and animal. They both get looked after. Also the eggs can stay warm with the smallest amount of the down…the female duck also replaces what’s lost when it returns. The IQ level in this comment section is astounding.
@@Joshuagilchrist55 oh you mean the commercial eider down industry has been there for a hundred years with mechanical machinery to hasten the process of creating luxurious beddings for humans all over the world?
The feather harvesters have more incentive than anyone to keep these duck populations high. It is mentioned in the video how the duck is heavily protected by Icelandic law. Please think before you comment.
Yes I can totally see her taking the entire Nest once the eggs have hatched because it would blow away or be used by another animal after the mother has left, but those eggs were still lying in the nest unhatched..that's removing too much material it appears to me..
@@rodrigochayamiti9198 well it seems that even with the way she is Handling the nest the population of these birds is not declining so what she's doing is clearly not hurting the eggs
There's good alternatives for pillows and blankets that doesn't involve taking the nests like that. I get that people did it in the old days, but today it's just greed.
I've never had the privilege of trying eider down anything - and I don't think my broke ass would ever get the chance to spluge that irresponsibly - I do wish down alternatives didn't feel (to my neuro-atypical self, at least) so ... "off" ... compared to say goose down, or down + feather comforters, or I'd be more willing to give them a whirl. For now, I'll stick to actual goopse down (responsibly sourced if possible), but I hope tech can advance - maybe growing down like they're working to do with lab grown meat!
No it is just mentioned they wait for the mothers to leave as normally when the mothers leave the wind destroys the nest after a while and the birds simply remake it. If they dont take the eiderdown it is useless and is simply taken by the wind with no impacts to the birds. There is no difference in people taking it before the wind does.
HE said taking SMALL amounts of Eiderdown 0:48 min SHE took more than 90% of that nest 1:48 min The bird comes home just to see her home was vandalized
"Eiderdown farmers will harvest this down either by taking small amounts from each nest or by waiting for the birds to dissapear completely" Notice the words: either, or and bird. They will either take small amounts while the bird is there or larger amounts when they arent. If the birds are not there then they take larger amounts. Nothing here is contradictory nor is it unethical. If anything this is beneficial as farmers are now invested in the safety of the bird populations. The fact that oftentimes the wind will blow away the nest if the birds are not present and the birds return and remake it is no different to when it the nest is taken with the minimum left for the eggs to survive. Either way: no birds are being harmed, no eggs are being harmed and this practice in contrast to ones like whaling have not had any adverse effects on the population of these birds unlike that of whales. This practice has been refined for centuries. That does not mean it is good nessesarily just that it is efficient and due to the scarcity of this material REQUIRES that farmers maintain the populations of these birds. If it had any adverse effects on the birds then there would be noticable effects on the amount of Eiderdown produced and because there are no signs of this, it is simply wrong to consider this unethical as all signs show that it is an ethical and sustainable practice.
"They should replace the feathers with something else or artificial wool" Then they'd be introducing invasive materials that could possibly harm the ducks or pollute the environment which would also harm the ducks.
@@giovannicazares3110 what so we can produce more polyester to kill more whales and make us choke then blame the people for not planting enough trees eventhough trees dont even made 30% of oxygen?
"If we didn't take it it would just blow away." Immediatelly shows her violating a nest by moving eggs. Yeah you could have just not done the whole eco act.
Yes! “It would just blow away and be useless” 🤔 or maybe you could just not ?? And just let nature be. There’s not a shortage in materials to make duvets and pillows. 😑
@@cantfiteveryheart There is indeed no shortage in materials to make duvets and pillows. Then again, she can sell these for $8000 a piece, and by the time those birds are endangered or outright extinct, she'll be 6ft under in an expensive coffin.
"take a little bit from each nest" SHE JUST took 95% of the damn nest! I have to wonder how many of those eggs end up freezing or how many of those ducklings end up dead because they destroy the nests each time...
You are right, taking warm nests is like collecting eggs. Like the Farallone Egg Company, which by 1851 was collecting half a million guillemot eggs a year for sale. The collectors sailed in the spring, broke already laid eggs, so they soon received fresh ones. For half a century, at least 14 million guillemot eggs have been removed from the islands! Scientists estimate that the total population of seabirds has declined by 70 percent over the past 60 years. In fact, these numbers are even worse, because many are threatened with extinction: of the 360 known species of seabirds, most are endangered or endangered, which is more in percentage terms than in any other group of birds.
Ouch. She is actually removing the eggs from their nest. It's like stealing a baby's home! Just noticed 99% of commenters too thought this was OUTRAGEOUS!
Literally every icelander i see in these comment section is saying that the eggs are safe. The nest is for wintertime. She harvests them on spring (aka the season AFTER winter, in case yall cant connect the dots at this point)
In Norway they at least build hatching houses for Eiderducks and pad them with dried seaweed. They respect the fact that Eiderducks on the red list and don't take the down before the nests have been leaved. How they harvest the down in Iceland is really sad to see and very questionable.
@@gerdafridriksdottir8836 try that for your own baby and don't worry it's okay beacuse human population has not got down since the beginning of human race
@@gerdafridriksdottir8836 lol.. love it that this person is saying that the eider ducks are okay with them stealing their homes. Wonder what a "I am okay with you stealing my home for your selfish needs" quack sounds like..!! They made that home using their own feathers so that their kids can stay warm, but nah the ducks will be "okay" if we replace that rare material with hay which is obviously not as insulating like eiderdown feathers
@@gerdafridriksdottir8836 how does me touching eider down matter here? Stealing an innocent duck's home is downright unethical and selfish, that's it.. there is absolutely no connection to me having touched eider down in my life..!!
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its ethically harvested that means the eider ducks will leave the nests then if its not collected it would just blow always so its not rlly stealing they abandoned their nests
$8,000 for a damn blanket because it’s the one of the warmest materials on earth? I’m thinking if you can afford an $8,000 blankie….you can probably afford to turn up the heat some🤨🤷🏻♂️ Anyone that pays that much for a blanket has more money than brains.🤯
the point is not that its warm, the point is that its a luxury good. a bragging piece. if we applied your logic to say, food for example, why arent we all just eating crappy fast food? anyone who pays more for gourmet food has more money than brains 🤯
you have no idea. Who decides what is "ethical" anyway? i suspect one we are going to hear about in the future is antarctic krill. Its kind of the wild west down there. Its all labeled as "sustainable" and crap like that. But theres no way they know that, the fishery hasn't been going on long enough its all BS. Its just no one is really looking at it yet. But Krill are a very important part of the ecosystem and we have no idea what sort of long term damage we will be causing with that pretty unregulated fishery. Only reason I looked at it was because Im a sled dog racing activist, and there is a krill oil company that sponsors a few of the racers. One of whom has a questionable reputation. The alarms in my brain went off seeing a dude who chains dogs and beats them talking about "ethical and sustainable." I worked in dog sled racing so I know how shady THAT gets, and then I saw that and just kinda did my own homework. and yea, theres alot of shady stuff with the whole krill oil thing. All the studies are privately funded and stuff like that. Its a total joke.
It is ethical, if they didnt take the nest the wind would destroy it. They left the bare minimum nessesary to keep the eggs alive and the birds tend to remake their nests quite easily.
@@ThatOneBreadstickEater bro she literally just said they'd wait for the ducks to be done breeding 1:55 And then next second do the exact opposite are you arguing a fact? Personally I wouldn't care if she cooked the eggs on video and ate them I just don't like a lier.
She stated, "when the birds are all gone and the babybirds are ready to leave. The down is gonna blow away and be useless." A minute later we witnessed her taking a mother eiders down straight from under the innocent eggs. That's false statements right there.
Birds also abandon their nests, they closely monitory the island to protect the nests and if all the parents are gone then those eggs are as good as dead if they arent already.
"We take just a little from the nest" Continues to remove live baby eggs and takes the entire nest and continues on to the next nest to take 100% of all the live nests they find! I HIGHLLLLY doubt they are doing this ethnically like they say.... Don't care what they claim. Greed and profits turn even the most ethical of people into dirty, conniving, horrible people!
do you know theyre live eggs? she's likely taking from abandoned nests, she wouldnt be doing something harmful to the species bc that makes no sense business wise.
@@Voiidpriince uhhh yeah there is business reasoning to take from the nest... They don't give a shit if the bird needs the nest or not, they just want the material for their expensive coats and products they make with this stuff! Notice how almost 98% of the comments are saying the same exact thing about her taking wayyyy too much of the nest?!
@@powsniffer0110 they literally couldn’t have a business if they were harming the species, that would make zero sense. Also yeah everyone is hive minding on the same sentence, we don’t work there, we don’t actually have any insider knowledge on the situation or how everything works. Of course there will be criticism for things none of us are informed on.
@@Voiidpriince you act like companies have never done things that would seemingly hurt their business in the long-run for short term profits.... This is literally EXACTLY how tons of companies operate like oil companies and mining companies. Screw the long term, we'll worry about that later ... We just need to gain as much profits RIGHT NOW! You're living in ignorant bliss if you don't think companies do this ... Talking about hive thinking and talking shit about societal thinking... 🤔
It sure is a good thing to have a super insulated $8000 blanket to keep warm in on those freezing winter nights. It’s not like they can afford to heat their homes, you know, with the price of fuel these days😂
i think there is a reason why a bird would build her nest to that size and it should be just right size. So taking 90% of that nest and still convincing that its no problem, is not ok.
@@gerdafridriksdottir8836 they could have also shown that in this video, or talked about how they ensure that what they do is ethical. The only thing they show is a lady in expensive clothing take a nest in its entirety and not do anything else
Okay so taking the nest isn't unethical as the wind destroys the nest if they dont and they leave the minimum needed for the birds to survive. This practice is centuries old and if it would be bad for the birds we would see a decline in their population. Instead farmers protect the birds from predators and collect about as much as the wind takes without them which is roughly 95% of it
Two solutions; replace the nest with something else like cotton or whatever, OR add a weighted fake egg to a full nest so it stays when the checks are gone
And another kind of predator: humans collecting the protection of eggs. I couldn't ever buy such thing, even for lower price. Thanks to share so we are all aware of it.
@@aryanbaviskar4127 that has nothing to do with anything. You dont eat these ducks, you're killing then for no reason, as there are other ways more sustainable to keep warm.
And another kind of predators: humans collecting the eggs of a chicken infront of their parents. I couldn't every buy such a thing, even for lower price.
I thought messing with nests made birds not want to come back to them? Do these ducks still take care of their eggs after this woman has handled them and stolen the nests out from under them? Why not just like, mark where the nests are and come back later when the ducks have hatched? Surely y'all would know how long it takes these ducks to hatch by now.
That’s a myth. Mother birds will continue to incubate their eggs and feed babies once a person has touched them. If you see a baby bird or egg and you can also see the nest it fell out of, ALWAYS put it back. Also, this is their livelihood, they’re not going to do anything that will result in less ducks surviving. Obviously, the nesting ducks can replace the down that’s taken. I agree, though, it would be better to closely monitor nests and take the whole thing as soon as it’s not needed anymore.
Yes how wonderful! After ethically taking away all the eiderdown feather nest and leaving 2 feathers there, the eggs may or may not hatch. Just great, soon enough they’ll all go extinct and it’ll be a mystery as to why it’s going extinct isn’t it.
@@novaangle2183 Kinda, I helped with the conservation of hookbill ducks when I was studying animal behaviour. My grandparents raise free-range chickens for over 30 years now.
The harvesting didn’t look ethical to me. Looks like she took most of it and left nearly nothing for multiple eggs. Just another case of humans exploiting nature.
I think they known what they r doing....because eider duck is their golden duck.....they won't harvest the duck once and for all.....they will try to do anything to protect the eggs because they want the eggs to survive to give them more fibre next season.....
This practice isn't new it's centuries old and in no way harms the Eider. If these farmers didn't harvest the nests the wind would destroy them. The birds remake them easily regardless. In fact the protectiom from predators these farmers offer make it so that to the birds there is nothing but gain. The population of Eider has been stable for the centuries of this practice and still is today.
I love how she is walking around in a $3,000 trench coat, $200 sunglasses, $800 watch, $250 rain boots while stealing 99% of the eggs nest. Looks like she doesn't work a hard day in her life. She should come work with me for a day. At least what I do is ethical, but I imagine I make about 1/60th of what she makes a year
I can't believe she is handling those eggs, does she realize that she basically lied about waiting until the nests are abandoned to collect? I wonder how many eggs are abandoned because her scent is all over them
I was wondering same cuz most avians discard their egg if found other animals scent over eggs as she carelessly touched their egg literally like poultry egg
@@Leo-bu8hv actually no, birds dont have a good sense of smell, they wont know if theres been humans nearby unless theyve seen them there. I think that lie was just something told to us to not disturb birds when we were younger.
@@WildVee your mom's virginity was a myth in middle school, I've seen babies left by robins because a human handled the chicks, and I've seen a house wren throw one of its own back out of the nest after I tried to rescue a fallen chick. You can believe whatever debunking RU-vid conspiracy videos, accusing someone of spreading misinformation seems to be the death rattle of the woke culture. You must be one of those Netflix employees that has extra time today?