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Answer for the clue "Source of soft feathers ", 10 letters:
eider duck

Word definitions for eider duck in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eider \Ei"der\, n. [Of Scand. origin, cf. Icel [ae]?r; akin to Sw. eider, Dan. ederfugl.] (Zo["o]l.) Any species of sea duck of the genus Somateria , esp. Somateria mollissima , which breeds in the northern parts of Europe and America, and lines its nest ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. duck of the northern hemisphere much valued for the fine soft down of the females [syn: eider ]

Usage examples of eider duck.

The arctic column showed a polar bear, a walrus, a Greenland seal, a reindeer, a right whale, an eider duck.