Editing Steller's eider (section)

=== Population distributions ===
There are three recognized breeding populations of Steller’s eiders, one in Alaska and two in Arctic Russia.

* The '''Russian-Atlantic population''' makes its breeding ground west of the Khatanga River in western Siberia and winters in the Barents and Baltic seas.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web|last=Bureau of Ocean Energy Management|date=September 2006|title=Biological Evaluation of Spectacled Eider (''Somateria fischeri''), Steller's Eider (''Polysticta stelleri''), and Kittlitz's Murrelet (''Brachyramphus brevirostris'') |url=https://www.boem.gov/sites/default/files/uploadedFiles/BOEM/About_BOEM/BOEM_Regions/Alaska_Region/Environment/Environmental_Analysis/Biological%20Evaluation%20for%20LS193%20Sept%2017%202007%20-%20stand%20alone.pdf|access-date=November 10, 2021 |website=Bureau of Ocean Energy Management}}</ref>
* The '''Russian-Pacific population''' nests on the east side of the Khatanga River and spends its winters in the southern Bering Sea and northern Pacific Ocean.<ref name=":8" />
* The '''Alaska-breeding population''' nests on the Arctic Coastal Plain and in exceptionally small numbers in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta, and winters in the southern Bering Sea and northern Pacific ocean.<ref name=":1" /> Less than 1% of the world’s Steller’s eiders nest in Alaska.<ref name=":1" />
Some non-breeding populations will also spend their summers in northern Norway, on the east coast of Russia and adjacent waters, and south-west Alaska.<ref name=":8" />