Adam Grimm designed the 2025 Spectacled Eider Duck Stamp. Grimm's oil painting of a pair of spectacled eiders won the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2024 federal duck stamp art contest. Grimm is a wildlife artist from Wallace, South Dakota, and this was his third time winning the Federal Duck Stamp competition. His previous winning entries were in 1999, when he was the youngest ever winner at age 21, and again for the 2014-2015 stamp.

His winning entry is an acrylic painting of a pair of spectacled eiders with a mountain scene in the background. The Federal Duck Stamp funds the acquisition of wetlands for the National Wildlife Refuge System, benefiting not only waterfowl but also other wildlife.

The spectacled eider (Somateria fischeri) is a unique, medium-sized sea duck known for the distinct, pale, circular patches around its eyes, which resemble spectacles. It breeds along the Arctic coasts of Alaska and northeastern Siberia, and its entire global population congregates in a specific area of the Bering Sea during winter.

The Federal Duck Stamp Contest is an annual, juried art competition sponsored by the U.S. government to select the artwork for the following year's Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. The winning art is a miniature work, and 98% of the funds from stamp sales go to conserve wetland habitat within the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Duck stamps are interesting to collect for many reasons, including because they are miniature works of art. Each stamp features a unique, high-quality painting of a different North American waterfowl species, selected through a prestigious, federally regulated art contest.

Adam Grimm designed the 2025 Spectacled Eider Duck Stamp. Grimm's oil painting of a pair of spectacled eiders won the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2024 federal duck stamp art contest. Grimm is a wildlife artist from Wallace, South Dakota, and this was his third time winning the Federal Duck Stamp competition. His previous winning entries were in 1999, when he was the youngest ever winner at age 21, and again for the 2014-2015 stamp.

His winning entry is an acrylic painting of a pair of spectacled eiders with a mountain scene in the background. The Federal Duck Stamp funds the acquisition of wetlands for the National Wildlife Refuge System, benefiting not only waterfowl but also other wildlife.

The spectacled eider (Somateria fischeri) is a unique, medium-sized sea duck known for the distinct, pale, circular patches around its eyes, which resemble spectacles. It breeds along the Arctic coasts of Alaska and northeastern Siberia, and its entire global population congregates in a specific area of the Bering Sea during winter.

The Federal Duck Stamp Contest is an annual, juried art competition sponsored by the U.S. government to select the artwork for the following year's Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp. The winning art is a miniature work, and 98% of the funds from stamp sales go to conserve wetland habitat within the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Duck stamps are interesting to collect for many reasons, including because they are miniature works of art. Each stamp features a unique, high-quality painting of a different North American waterfowl species, selected through a prestigious, federally regulated art contest.