Editing Steller's eider (section)

{{short description|Species of bird}}
{{speciesbox
| name = Steller's eider
| image = Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri) (13667966664).jpg
| image_caption = Male (drake)
| image2 = stellershen3.jpg
| image2_caption = Female (hen)
| status = VU
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| status_ref = <ref>{{cite iucn |author=BirdLife International |date=2018 |title=''Polysticta stelleri'' |volume=2018 |page=e.T22680415A132527232 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2018-2.RLTS.T22680415A132527232.en |access-date=3 February 2022}}</ref>
| status2 = G3
| status2_system = TNC
| status2_ref = <ref>{{cite web | url=https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.105519/Polysticta_stelleri | title=NatureServe Explorer 2.0 }}</ref>
| genus = Polysticta
| parent_authority = [[Thomas Campbell Eyton|Eyton]], 1836
| species = stelleri
| authority = ([[Peter Simon Pallas|Pallas]], 1769)
| range_map = Polysticta stelleri map.svg

}}

'''Steller's eider''' ('''''Polysticta stelleri''''') is a migrating Arctic diving duck that breeds along the coastlines of eastern Russia and Alaska. It is the rarest, smallest, and fastest flying of the eider species.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Stellers Eider {{!}} Types of Ducks & Geese|url=https://www.ducks.org/hunting/waterfowl-id/stellers-eider|access-date=2021-11-12|website=www.ducks.org}}</ref>

Due to the extensive contraction of its breeding range, the Alaska-breeding population of Steller's eider was listed as vulnerable in 1997 by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature ([[International Union for Conservation of Nature|IUCN]]).<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service|date=September 2020|title=Steller's Eider Recovery Plan|url=https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/species/specialstatus/pdfs/stellerseider_2003_recovery.pdf|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service}}</ref> The species is protected in Russia and the U.S. and is the subject of an ongoing recovery plan by the [[European Union]] and  [[United States Fish and Wildlife Service|U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service]].<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=European Union for the Conservation of Nature|date=1997|title=European Species Action Plan for Steller's Eider (Polysticta stelleri)|url=https://ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/conservation/wildbirds/action_plans/docs/polysticta_stelleri.pdf|access-date=November 10, 2021|website=European Union for the Conservation of Nature}}</ref>